Spring cleanup gives Haines an annual reminder of how our so-called “system” of waste and recycling management is antiquated and dysfunctional. It’s antiquated in the sense that generations ago America’s towns and cities realized that pooling together and requiring all residents to pay for a basic, mutually agreed upon trash service keeps communities cleaner, provides better service and fairly shares the high cost of this public necessity. It’s dysfunctional in the sense that, in a small, isolated…