Posted on 01/14/2018 2:50:59 PM PST by Controlling Legal Authority
“The website says they send us biodegradable silverware,” said Biggs. “No. I stopped all of that because they compost slower than the food, so it doesn’t work well with our system.”
One day after following the custodians, he realized they were simply pulling all of the bags from the three-bin system on their rounds and dumping them inside another bag that went into the landfill trash compactor...“Over my time here, I’ve gone to the trouble of doing my civic duty and collected hundreds if not thousands of recyclable items off the streets of Columbia,” Wills said. “To think that all of my hard work has likely ended up in the landfill makes me incredibly angry.”
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[One day after following the custodians, he realized they were simply pulling all of the bags from the three-bin system on their rounds and dumping them inside another bag that went into the landfill trash compactor.]
Just wait until he finds out Global Warming is a way Al Gore makes big cash for big houses, jet-fuel-burning airplanes........
This story has been repeated over and over. “Recycling” efforts at dividing plastics, aluminum, cardboard, etc. by the citizens winds up reunited back together and right to the landfill. It has probably happened in more places than it hasn’t happened due to the cost of subsidizing recycling and budget shortfalls.
If they don’t want their silverware, I’ll take it and melt it down.
My office building has the LEED green certification, but when I look at all the crap people throw in the recycle bin I assume it just goes straight to the landfill.
So-called “recycling” is mainly a feel-good-at-the-moment for LIB morons.
Around here, we used to have to sort recycling but they dumped it all into the same truck. They finally acknowledged what they were doing, and stopped making folks sort. (Yard clippings and corrugated cardboard is still separate stream and they do compost that). I don’t know what percentage of the single stream recycling actually gets recycled.
Anyone with a better than room temperature IQ cannot be surprised that it all ends up in a landfill.
I've thought, for a long time, that eventually, someone is going to start mining all these Mt Trashmores, running everything thru a a shredder, dumping it all into a fluidized bed incinerator, making steam for power generation, and then periodically cleaning out the trace metals and selling them.
50 year old landfills have been unearthed, and normally, you can still read the newspapers. They don't decompose...
100% recyclable lip service Repeated by ALL the greenies
I have been recycling everything possible for about 55 years, long before it became the darling of the lefties.
It's amazing how much can be recycled and re-used.
Funny thing is the lefties seem to hate "junk" yards, or "salvage" yards, and the idea of keeping a vehicle going as long as possible.
Since they don't see it, they have no idea of the environment cost of building a new car or truck, or making new parts for them.
Our town comes close to paying all of the costs of equipment and workers to run our dump (transfer station to the lefties) by recycling glass, metals, cardboard, etc.
Screw the environmental and liberal "feel good" part, conserving should be a conservative idea.
Get the most out of every resource you can.
Liberals are not particular about what they put into their recycle bins. Quantity is what they care about. The more they put into the bins, the more virtuous they feel.
The stuff in my recycle bin is all recyclable. (I play the game.) The stuff in liberals' recycle bins requires expensive manual sorting to have the trash removed, so it might as well go directly into the landfill. Since my recyclables wind up being mixed with their non-recyclables, the whole mess might as well go into the landfill.
Besides aluminum, there is no real value to curbside and even most industrial recycling. My town is changing our trash pickup soon. I’m done with the recycling charade.
It’s way worse than that in my fair city. Right next door in the excrescencehole called Cleveland the city gets paid money per unit of recyclable collected. Euclid has to PAY the rubbish company to haul away the recyclables... and nobody seems to give a damn! I just spent a good hour and a half online trying to find out how much we are paying and no joy.
I guess I should decide to be done with it too. Old habits.
The only reason we play their dumb game is because we currently have to put purchased stickers on trash bags and essentially pay by the pound. Recycled stuff is no charge.
However, since economics is the wise use of scarce resources when another use is available, I flat out refuse to wash out dirty cans and “recyclables” using water for which I must pay.
Next month, we’re getting rolling bins with some sort of flat fee. The recycling bin will go out behind my shed for leaves or something.
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