Sometimes owning things is a responsibility.  I recently moved, and I took a bunch of plastic stuff to the dump to recycle it but was told it couldn't be recycled.  So I brought it all back home and put it out on the curb on garbage day.  I felt a little guilty throwing out plastic stuff, but I didn't realize when I bought it that I'd be responsible for its lifetime and eventual demise.  There wasn't any info from the store or on the receipt saying something like, "Oh hey you're responsible for disposing of this properly."  Ideally this should be handled by the manufacturer, but hey that's not the kind of world we live in.