That's always the case. If you recycle, you are at a competitive disadvantaged compared to people who don't care. If you are veggie as well. Or if you help your kids to do their homework.

Do you think it's unreasonable to promote recycling ?

It's not a binary choice, it's a spectrum anyway.

> No, regulation has the possibility of leveling the playing field and making everyone behave in a certain way, irrespective of how good or bad they are.

Regulations are very slow, subject to intense lobbying and conflicts of interest, and assume people in charge are benevolent and compentent.

Regulations are not the base of the society. They come, they go. They change according to the time, the context, the place... People are what's matter.

Again, I understand how hard this is. I also notice that a lot of people don't want to hear about it, because of the resonsibility it involves. But power to the people cannot comes without responsability to the people.

And responsability only truely work if it's chosen, not enforced.