In response to the related question you asked Peter a minute ago regarding whether we should recycle at any cost, I have two answers. The first one is that by using technology, the cost to recycle would be less than the net cost of disposal. That's my stand. Just using Halton Region as an example, their blue box cost is $78. If you take your garbage to the disposal site, it is more than $78.
The next one is the technology. Everybody talks about how it just costs too much money to sort the parts, because there's a plastic problem. But if you use the technology we employ today, the optical sorting, you can sort every type of plastic, from one to seven. It's worth lots of money. So this answers the first question about the tangible part.
The second one is the intangible part. Now we are disposing of our waste not by capturing the real cost, just like polluting the air and polluting the water. If you take that into consideration, I think lots of things can be justified. As Peter says, we need data, we need research and development on how to do things better and more efficiently and more effectively.