I don't believe China was "recycling" our trash. I think on their return trip, the Chinese buyers dumped their load in the ocean and Taa Daaa! the" Great Pacific Garbage Patch" is born!
Posted on 02/21/2019 4:09:04 PM PST by Lurch Addams
The conscientious citizens of Philadelphia continue to put their pizza boxes, plastic bottles, yoghurt containers and other items into recycling bins.
But in the past three months, half of these recyclables have been loaded on to trucks, taken to a hulking incineration facility and burned, according to the city’s government.
It’s a situation being replicated across the US as cities struggle to adapt to a recent ban by China on the import of items intended for reuse.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
are they burning the refuse in a steam-generating energy-producing facility? And, do we still have to separate?
Ah, the foibles of the Religion of Recycling.
I think China finally got tired of burning our crap, due to their air pollution problems. Now we need to burn it ourselves...just as we did decades ago.
Story mostly involves Chester PA.
This town is the biggest sh*thole that I95 runs through and has been for years.
“are they burning the refuse in a steam-generating energy-producing facility? And, do we still have to separate?”
To answer your question: Yes. Garbage separation was never intended for ‘recycling’, at least regarding paper and plastic (since they sent it all to China to burn), it was simply a POWER PLAY by the Left, to show their control over you. No different than the Left demanding the right of perverts to shower with little girls.
There’s a landfill up the road, and they have a electric power plant Generating Station that burns recyclables and I think it has a pretty good output because it’s always busy & it’s also a super-heated incinerator meaning that it burns so hot there is very little smoke at all. I think it’s pushing 1200 degrees, maybe more.
That’s a double whammy. Not recycling and then causing more air pollution. Chalk up disaster toward globull warming.
“Green Americans” remain hypnotized to believe that recycling is good no matter what. It’s going to take a very long time for them to realize that most of the recycling is not turned into compost, or fertilzer, or fiber, or even new products and containers. Most of it was bunched together, shipped off and sold to China. Now, China is filled ‘up to here’ with recyclable material. So full that they will not accept anymore. We have two or three generations of schoolchildren indoctrinated into this. Plus their children.
So for the most part, we are better off just throwing the trash and rubbish into the trash and rubbish.
The British are far more addicted to this recycling than we are here, issuing fines for wrongful storage. That happens in the states too, just not as often, so far.
This was happening forty five years ago when recycling got BIG! People were separating their trash, placing it in different recycle bins.
Then someone followed a recycle truck which picked up all the separated material and took it to the local landfill for burial.
But everyone felt SO GOOD with themselves that they were doing their part to save the planet.
And not one peep from the usual leftist green propaganda sites.
We banned plastic straws but we don’t actually care to try and support recycling because that requires real solutions and effort.
They should ship it to Gavin Nusanses house.
The left forces us to be garbage pickers and laughs at us.
Wait til they try to figure out what they’re going to do with all of those composite industrial wind turbine blades.
Live in the country.
Burn all kinds of cardboard and plastic in my burn pit.
Keeps the trees green around the house.
Oh yeah, harvesting trees this year to keep my woods healthy.
Expecting about 10 grand for the trees.
Suck it! Eco-warriors.
If I remember correctly, Ohio Edison had a plant in Cleveland that burned trash to generate steam. I haven’t heard anything about it in many years.
HAHAHA!
We had a converse with somebody who works in recycling. He said China is refusing to take it because there’s too much non-recycle material mixed in.
Just call recyclables by their real name , Garbage
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