You're making my point for me bud. Recycling is a band-aid, with low compliance. Recycling costs energy, it requires a market for recycled materials, and it once again throws the burden on the consumer. We have to collect it, transport it, wash it, refine it, transport it again. Why don't we just ... make less trash?

Again, it's the wrong posture and the wrong question. You should be doing your part, and demanding big business do their part as well.