Does it bother you to see aluminum sent to landfill forever?

This is going to sound silly, but here goes:

It bothers me when I see people throw aluminum cans into bins that will end up in landfill.  I recycle a small abount of aluminum cans each year, maybe 100 lbs. It only makes me around $50, since aluminum fetches around 50 cents per pound at scrap metal dealers. That boils down to around 2 cents per can.

Obviously i do not do this for the money, but rather to help our country save fuel and money. Aluminum smelted from ore takes a trmendous amount of electricty and creates quite a bit of air pollution, while melting down old cans to make new ones takes relatively little electricity and therefore much less pollution. We also have no sources of aluminum ore in the USA, so we have to pay other countries for the aluminum that we have to constantly replace. This is stupid.

There are still some states in the USA where buyers have to place a deposit of 5 cents per can. This probably results in the recycling of most of the cans in those states. But I live in Virginia, without such a law, and you can pick up alot of aluminum on any rural road. That's a littering problem, but the thousands of tons of aluminum that end up buried under tons of landfill is gone for good. It is not cost effective to use landfills as aluminum ore because of the massive impurities.  It is such a waste!

Any ideas on fixing this problem? Or do you fell that this is a wonderful example of personal freedom in consumption and discarding of natural resources?