[driftless2]

More than twenty years ago one of my LIBERAL geography profs. did a study on recycling and concluded it cost more in money and was more polluting than just throwing everything in the garbage.

For one thing washing many recyclables uses fresh water. And the trucks picking up the recyclables use a lot of gasoline to do their pickups. All in all, the juice is not worth the squeeze.

[Norseman]

>>All in all, the juice is not worth the squeeze.<<

Which was perfectly obvious from the get go since no one was paying for garbage, except for aluminum cans and other metals.

If the outputs exceeded the inputs, someone would get in the middle for a profit, just as scrap metal collectors do today. You don’t see anyone running around paying people for old newspapers or plastic or glass bottles because the inputs exceed the outputs.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“All in all, the juice is not worth the squeeze.”

Great line! :)