I’ve been called various things for not recycling.
Means nothing to me.
Other than metal, I don’t see any real value.
When I helped an organization research plastic recycling, I discovered that empty plastic bottles were put on massive ships and sent over seas for recycling. HOW would that be beneficial???
Pretend recycling makes liberals feel better about themselves and their community
I’ve seen it this way for a LONG time.
I don’t know if it is true, but about 30 years ago I heard that during WWII, most of the stuff people donated for rubber and other drives was dumped in the ocean. The argument was that the commodity drives were necessary to help people feel like they were a part of the war effort and also gave the general public “skin in the game” to defeat the axis. It was all about psychology.
And we learned, with Vietnam, what happens when you win on the battlefield but lose at home.
There are reports that the City of Pittsburgh recycling program LOSES money on everything but aluminum.
But the greenie lefty virtue signaling Democrats will NEVER wind it down.
In a similar vein, this pretend-feel-good applies to liberals and coal-burning prius “cars”.
Liberal elites love their delusions... the one’s that tell them they’re superior to the rest of us...
I can assure the world - the New York Times and Washington Post will NOT pick up this story.
The 1970’s recycling green pu lic school indoctrination worked. Idiots if all kinds now think separating their garbage matters and it doesn’t.
LOL...reminds me of a shirt I saw a guy wearing..... On the front it said “Earth First”.......On the back it said “We will mine the rest of the Planets later”
In all the communities where they’re forcing the issue (it finally reached mine, didn’t really think that would happen here), and it seems to be almost everywhere now, I see it as a practice run (one of many, like silly gun compliance laws) where we’re being tested as to how much resistance we’ll offer to tyranny. If we won’t even resist on the little things, when the repercussions are mostly inconvenience, they’ll know we’ll never resist when life and liberty are actually on the line.
My city has curbside recycling. They provide us with a recycling bin with wheels, a lid and a handle. It’s as many steps to the recycling bin as it is to the garbage can. I have no problem using it. It’s easier to wheel the bin to the curb than it is to carry a large garbage bag (have to buy city garbage bags for $2/each or they won’t pick it up). I fill a city garbage bags once every 2 weeks, so it costs me $52/ week plus whatever taxes I pay. I just want to get my junk out of the house.
I really don’t have any control over what happens to it after it’s picked up. I pay taxes and/or fees for this service. Not sure how much, but I don’t think it’s unreasonable for the service.
I think most people now know that 90% of recycling is a fraud...Aluminum is the ONLY product truly recycled.
Hey, come on... liberals need to feel good about themselves, even if it’s a bad joke.
Recycling is mandatory in my town. I’ve even had garbage trucks (same owners as the recycler) refuse items they think are recyclable. Biggest problem: the recycling company demands that all items must be practically gift-wrapped. They want only “pristinely clean” items. Silly waste of time and money. And there’s no way I’m going to spend hours cleaning and sorting my trash. Screw ‘em.
When I lived in Japan, our local garbage pick-up location had a big cage for the recyclables. It was filled with a lot of bins, all reserved for different things - steel and iron, aluminum, other metals, two kinds of batteries, three or four kinds of plastics (each container there is marked to show what kind it is), paper, and clear and colored glass. All the sorting was done by each resident. This kind of recycling makes sense, since the garbage is pre-sorted and easy to sell to recyclers.
That makes sense, but I don’t think that kind of personal responsibility would work in most places in the US.
I’ve always heard all they do is take out the aluminum, which I have almost none of. I’ve never bothered to take the recycling charge off my bill, but I’m skeptical.
I do it to save the land fills, to reuse materials...to save on energy costs in making new materials,etc ...I try to reuse things and wash out zip lock bags...I don't run the water too much and I hang my clothes outside to dry...
yes, some of it is moot...sometimes it costs more to recycle something than to just make something new...
the BIGGEST thing we can all do is to stop BUYING so much stuff and then tossing it in a few yrs...
living simply...which I don't do but that is my ultimate goal.
They have recycling where I live. City provided recycling can. Metal, glass, plastic bottles, and large cardboard boxes are the only thing I recycle. Regular paper just goes in the trash. It’s biodegradable.
We never had a garbage recyling but there was a recycling center a couple of towns over which we’d haul big stuff to.
There was an aluminum can place a couple towns over in the opposite direction. They both shut down years ago. It wasn’t worth the gas to drive to them.
I reuse what I can out of necessity.
Compare:
1. A million people at the source of the garbage chain individual sorting garbage into various categories of garbage.
vs.
2. Those million people simply throwing all garbage into a single stream, and then, a single entrepreneur sorting himself various categories of garbage as it arrives in a single stream at his garbage facility.
Q: Which method is most efficient? Which method produces greater return of raw materials back into production of new products?