There is an important distinction to be made between on-site and off-site recycling. Asking others to recycle
for you is risky. Many toxic waste sites in the U.S. were created by poorly managed firms recycling
other companies’ wastes, and now the companies are faced with cleanup costs. Off-site recycling is really
a form of waste disposal for the company which creates the waste and so is a low priority for action compared
to preventing the waste in the first place.