Editorial: The town would not need to spend as much as it does on removing trash if all town residents sorted their household garbage  However, while telling residents that they must sort their garbage would get some of them to do so, many would resent the order and refuse to comply
The current voluntary system, then, is to be preferred, because it costs about as much as a nonvoluntary system would and it does not engender nearly as much resentment
It is a claim that the editorial is trying to show is false.