I was reading in Fortune, I believe, that San Francisco has the highest recycling rate in the U.S., with 68% of people recycling. That sounds pretty good, except that still leaves 32% who don't recycle in San Francisco, and a much higher percentage of people across the country who refuse to recycle or who don't have access to recycling facilities. It makes me wonder why all states don't have some sort of container legislation, like there is in California and Hawaii, which provides the consumer a refund--5 cents or so--for bringing the bottle or can back to the store. Further, why is it when you are out and about, it is so hard to find a recycling receptable near a garbage can? It makes no sense to me that so many containers are simply tossed away into the garbage, when it takes so much more energy to make a new container from scratch rather than one recycled. We are wasting fossil fuels just because our country doesn't push people to separate out their recyclables from their regular trash. What is so hard about this? I'm sure recycling facilities use significant energy as well, but I can bet it is less than that used at landfills to process all of the trash plus the energy used to make all of the new containers. It is about time that this country took recycling seriously, as many other nations do. A good start would be for all states to give a cash-back incentive to the consumer to actually return their bottles and cans rather than disposing of them in the garbage can. Doesn't this make sense when we are starting to tout energy conservation as a top priority in this nation?