Burn stuff in big incinerators. Don’t let them scare you.
Tons of water and time wasted so the crazy greens can call it recycling ,LOL
Penn and Teller did an episode about this on Bullshit!. They found that the only worthwhile recycling scheme is aluminum. Everything else was just literal waste.
“Plastic Industry Knew Recycling Was a Farce for Decades”
FAKE NEWS - Where I live, they pick up plastic for recycling, so as far as I’m concerned, that means it’s getting recycled.
...otherwise I wouldn’t have that smug look on my face when I roll the RECYCLE BIN down my driveway.
No shit....
The Earth is already a giant recycling center. We manufacture plastic from Earth materials, that plastic is eventually eaten, degraded naturally, on the land and in the water.
I remember when the Deepwater Horizon oil spill occurred. There were ‘scientists’ who tried to questimate the total amount of oil that was released into the Gulf. After they determined an amount, they set off to find the huge underwater and surface oil. There was much less than expected. What real scientists found were huuuuge plumes of microorganisms that eat, yes eat, oil. A massive (more than huuuuge) amount of oil naturally seeps into the oceans from the ocean floor every year. IT’S PART OF THE EARTH. It is food for some parts of the Earth.
A quick search finds much information on our little buddies that dine on petroleum and plastic.
“”Natural and synthetic plastics are degraded by the action of microorganisms including bacteria, actinomycetes, and fungi (Ishigaki et al., 2004; Alshehrei, 2017).””
I think the enviro-kooks came up with a “solution” that did not solve the alleged “problem”.
And now they are trying to say their solution is to create another problem.
So they can use the stuff in a plastic (LOL) bottle to Rinse Lather and Repeat.
What a dystopic time to be alive!
We know a few peeps that just put plastics in he regular waste stream.
Hard to see why that is unwarranted.
Dixie Lee Ray, former governor of Washington state proved this decades ago.
BTW, she was also the Atomic Energy Commissioner, too, at one time.
Her most famous book was, “Trashing the Planet” which put the lie to the rabid environmentalists.
She was also a semi-regular guest on the Rush Limbaugh Show as an expert in environmental issues.
Light years ahead of everyone as usual, Rush pointed this out long ago.
Here in the Charleston SC area we had plastic recycling for years. Turns out it had to be trucked up to North Carolina at a huge loss. So for years people here thought that they were doing something for the environment by recycling plastic when all of their efforts ended up with large mountains of plastic at the local landfills that was never leaving. I’m not sure if any plastic from here ever went to North Carolina.
Yep. I remember when recycling got big back in 1970 or so! Then someone noticed that all the separated products, paper, plastic colored and plain glass were still loaded on the same garbage truck, hauled to the dump, dumped together and covered with dirt.
Oil and plastics are not the ones pressuring recycling. It was the government pushing a green agenda. This reporter is not only ignorant but is stupid as well.
I read in the MSM, Newsday to be exact, decades ago that recycling was a bust. Of course they didn’t beat that drum all day but they hit it once.
I worked at a landfill that pushed all the usual recycling pap. There were two major recycling companies near us that would bring in their non-recylables as trash. We noticed one of them had a lot more “trash” than usual. When asked about it they said all those loads were “contaminated”. We inspected those loads and found they were NOT contaminated. They just couldn’t process all the material they were getting.
The other company ended up storing their “excess” cardboard on our unused land until the market improved. It was about 25 feet high and as big as a football field. They covered it with tarps, and it sat there about two years. It took that long for a recycling market to become viable.
Around here, they’ve dropped curbside glass recycling because it isn’t worth doing. Most of what we’re doing with recycling is assuaging the feelings of Gaia-worshippers. At considerable cost, and perhaps even costing more energy than not recycling.
Everyone with a brain knew it was a non-starter right from the start. Trying to beat money out of these companies now is just a shake-down.
Looks like lawsuits are coming.
“ The best way to reduce plastic pollution is to avoid single-use plastics entirely. However, it is still better to recycle plastic at home than throw it away.”
That is true. Even better, reduce plastic pollution by banning all plastics.
Only to see a surge in energy usage, pollution, and raw material consumption used in manufacturing plastics substitutes that far exceeds the aforementioned factors for plastics.
The energy and resources (eg water) used to recycle a milk jug far exceeds the value of the reclaimed plastic. Ditto for most items.
Extracting hydrocarbons from the ground and turning them into products is amazingly efficient and yields comparatively small amounts of pollution compare to most so called natural alternatives. Except the ones that involve depopulating the earth. Which is of the course the deep green agenda.