City Recycling

As a Floridian whose used to the laws of recycling down there I am appalled that the state of New York has no law on recycling. In Florida it is mandatory to recycle all recyclables. There are two different pick-ups. There’s the normal weekly trash pick-up and along with that on the same day there is a recycling pick-up. Everyone is mandated to have two types of recycling bins. One blue bin for cans, plastic bottles and other types of recyclables and there is one red bin for paper recycles. In Florida when the trash guys come to pick up the trash if they were to so happen to pick up a bag filled with cans they would refuse to put it in the truck. They would just leave the bag on your lawn until you fix the issue and put it out for next week. I have also even heard of people getting fines for continuously refusing to recycle. Why doesn’t New York State do this? Instead we charge a five cent deposit for every can or bottle. Why don’t we just enforce a law stating that everyone must recycle? I feel if people knew it was the law to recycle they would feel they had an obligation to recycle. It seems to work down in Florida and it’s not like it’s even that hard to fulfill such a task. I feel instating such a law would encourage people and even make them feel better about helping the environment. Our ways of life that deplete the environment could simply be avoided and our quality of living could increase instead of the opposite.