answer:There are really no cons to recycling, but, there IS personal choice and the math of logic. When I was married and raising a family I recycled a lot more than I do now as a single person with no kids at home anymore. I also no longer grow huge gardens so I do not compost. I average about 5 aluminum cans a month and very little other recycle stuff. What I DO still do, living rural, is toss all my organic stuff into the woods across the road from my house and what isn’t eaten by the wildlife simply composts itself. Infact, just this morning I took a big bowl of watermelon and cantalope rinds to pitch and noticed a root ball from a transplanted Bamboo I cut down and tossed into the underbrush, is sprouting into a bamboo bush under the giant poison oak bush. haha