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Non-retired, long-time garbage recycler here...

1- Yes, and they can be easily sabotaged, so the businesses using them will see conventional waste or compost bins as cheaper alternatives, at least for a while. Also, conventional waste bins also send all the crap to landfills. Duh. The goal of doing this is to allow for dumpster-divers to help with waste reduction (which is one of the more external benefits of dumpster-diving).

2- EPA qualifications are irrelevant, in a world where corporations are more powerful and wealthy than "your" government. Believe in Santa? That's fine, but I don't, since 2007 at least. Sleep well, kid.

3- Being in Canada, I can testify that the US is using the border as extra EPA regulations loophole for dumping toxic waste from their landfills in cross-border lakes and rivers. Provincial and Federal governments don't seem to give a fuck about the matter as it's more important to them to keep humans from crossing the border, as well as some black market goodies.

This is in addition to the critic of the other commenter of course. There's for instance a well-known issue like this, in Lake Massawippi and Lake Memphremagog where massive landfills near the US-Quebec border have been contaminating these lakes and their rivers for years, if not decades.

Always fun to come across statist zealots on this site. lol Gotta love the input!