When we collectively oblige our governing bodies to do seventh generation economics, the inexorable equation of 4 hours of a 60 watt light bulb OR make one aluminum can from bauxite instead of from an old can will be factored into the tax structure. At least in Kitsap Co, Washington, we must be doing something in the way of pricing landfill correctly, because the local trash haulers do the curbside recycling program because it saves them money. Until the inescapable consequnce of not including disposal into the cost of products hits 51% of the voters, the regional differences will be stunning, globally as well as nation by nation and locality by locality. What I personally find most discouraging is the regularity with which I see (and conspicuously dig in and move) aluminum cans and paper in garbage cans RIGHT NEXT to recycle containers in the workplace. They are all put there by the children of people my age who have been setting the example of recycling for 30 or 40 years. Some things take longer than others. It must be rebellion!