“Waste Management, the largest U.S. trash hauler and recycler, is spending more than $1.4 billion building and automating recycling facilities. The company, which goes by WM, reported an 18% increase in third-quarter profit in its recycling processing and sales segment despite commodity prices being 35% lower than a year earlier. Automation lifted the value of its output and reduced operating expenses, such as labor. 

Job loss was a concern in Virginia when the communities involved considered the AMP plan, Bagley said. His retort was that hardly anyone wanted those jobs. 

‘I told them, quite frankly, as a society, we shouldn’t expect people to do that,’ he said. ‘We’ve got too much technology.'”

From Wall Street Journal.