[Controlling Legal Authority]

Initial thrust of the article is that the U of Mo doesn’t recycle as much as they say they do, but later on some zingers about how recycling isn’t quite what it is cracked up to be anyway.

[SaveFerris]

[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........

[Monterrosa-24]

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.

[BenLurkin]

If they don’t want their silverware, I’ll take it and melt it down.

[colorado tanker]

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.

[PAR35]

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.

[jonascord]

As long as the Stupids FEEEEEL good, what does it matter if their smug, legally mandated recycling actually accomplishes anything?

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...

[justrepublican]

100% recyclable lip service Repeated by ALL the greenies

[ADemocratNoMore]

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.