Posted on 09/24/2014 3:59:48 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
Around 400,000 people marched through Manhattan yesterday to send a message to world leaders regarding the dire consequences of climate change, and the urgent, desperate necessity of enacting sweeping reforms to stop it. It appears at least 150,000 of those people tossed away their paper Starbucks cups...
From the looks of it, much of what was heaved onto the ground by activists caught up in the fervor wasn't trash at all—a healthy amount of the detritus piled in the gutters was recyclable, indicating that attendees couldn't even be bothered to stuff their spent Gatorade bottles into their bags until they located the appropriate receptacle. (Which, to be clear, is a recycling bin.) Also, the coffee cups!
Of course, the only real way to stop climate change is by overturning existing paradigms—agreements by governments to drastically cut greenhouse gas emissions, regulatory changes to factory farms and the cessation of cutting down virgin forests. [Editor's note: We don't have data to compare the amount of climate march trash to trash generated by other large gatherings, so an alternative headline here could also be "Massive Crowd Leaves Some Litter."] There is also the possibility that the trash wasn't left by the activists but other passersby not involved in the march, most of whom are probably agents provocateurs employed by the New York Post.
Still, it's a grim day when some of the city's most dedicated activists are blind to the impact of their own habits. Coffee cups are generally coated with plastic, which makes them neither recyclable nor compostable. Plastic cups and cans are recyclable, and letting them simply fall from your hand when you're done with them is not an acceptable means of disposal. Paper and cardboard make up over 40 percent of the solid waste sent to die in North American landfills. The square-footage of natural habitat lost making a 16-ounce paper cup with a sleeve is estimated to be .93 square-feet. In 2006, more than 6.5 million trees were cut down to make 16 billion coffee-specific paper cups for U.S. consumers, resulting in 253 million pounds of waste.
Reusable coffee cups are cheap—Starbucks sells their version for $1. Stuffing it into your backpack, purse or murse can be a pain, but any additional back problems wrought from carrying an empty mug or bottle will be nothing compared to the back pain you'll feel when you're forced to spend the rest of your life treading water.
A Department of Sanitation spokesperson said that information on the amount of trash hauled from the march route will be available in the coming days, but that crews were "assigned to clean up after the march as with any event in the City." All of the trash was removed by Monday morning.
We've inquired as to whether additional trash cans and recycling bins were made available for the march, and whether the department's clean-up efforts entailed separating recyclables. We'll update this story when we hear back.
That is snort-worthy comedy right there!!!
They’ll spin it as providing employment to pick up the trash.
This republic has been doomed since wilson.
As usual, ecofreaks have no knowledge of science. What's in those pieces of paper and cardboard? Carbon. Where did it come from? The trees from which the paper and cardboard were made sucked CO2 out of the air, released the O2, and built the carbon into their structure. If you're really worried about CO2 in the atmosphere, the sensible thing to do is plant trees, convert them to paper and cardboard, use it once (no silly recycling), and then bury it deep in a landfill where it can't oxidize and return to the atmosphere.
Yeah, read the history. Sad what Democrats have done. I think that FDR was the worse followed by Johnson. Truman seemed decent enough.
Typical liberals. Rules are for other people.
Wonder what he/she carries in its “Man Purse”?
On second thought, I don’t think I really want to know. However, there are probably some women out there with inquiring minds that really want to know!
But, they pay people to pick up the trash there, don’t they.
/s
You can’t expect them to clean up after themselves, that is a job for the “little people”, you know, the ones who are to be slaves after the revolution.
Gore-Bull warming needs to be ridiculed for the scam that it is.
Every time I read about this fiasco they up the number of supposed marchers.
Good point, first reports were “tens of thousands”.
(Not so) Idle speculation on my part...
Large, half used tube of K-Y Jelly
Tampons
Steely Dan (Burroughs' original, not the band!)
Tiger Beat magazine with Justin Beeber on the cover.
Parade route map for the next St Patrick's Day parade
Tickets to Disneyworld first week in June
“Clean up is for the little people, for someone else to do.”
As in, ‘We The People’ after each successive ‘regime’ is done with us! Bah!
Nicely done! :)
I’m guessing tampons and whatever is left of his, ‘manhood.’
*SNORT*
Post 37, LOL!
Bet he picks up the soap.
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