Why can’t we just recycle our own trash here in the USA! ?

Governments have made it economically non-feasible with regulations. 

You can.  Here in Canada, society looks down on you if you don't: reduce, reuse and recycle.  It just makes sense.  I don't see why youn don't already have a recycling program...oh thats right, your an American.

Who said you can't? If you want to than do it- The f uck

Well, we could, we would just have to pay a lot more to dispose of our recycling than we do now, because it would cost a lot more (due to the higher cost of labor). 

What would you do with a pile of broken glass? Mixed plastics? Contaminated paper? Recycling takes an extensive physical plant, large amounts of feedstock, and a market. Individuals don't have any of that.

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You CAN invest in solar and wind energy by buying stock.

Expense. In order to dispose of trash domesticly you would have to pass enviromental regulations, and that is expensive, the few facilities that do comply can't handle the volume. So it's cheaper to send it half way round the world to a country that doesn't care about enviromental regulations, but will sign a piece of paper saying it does so they are covered.