Posted on 06/11/2024 9:38:21 AM PDT by Red Badger
About 50 years ago, a member of a certain “Family” told me that it all goes in the same dump!
No. I never did. Unless you have some lying tyrant running where you live. Better find out first. RATs lie a lot to force conformity.
It is not really a scam as much as people need to be educated that plastics are really hard to recycle.
So, IF you are in the grocery store. Buy the beverage that comes in an aluminum can instead of a glass or plastic bottle.
When I was a kid we bought our milk in a half gallon cardboard wax coated container. Now, milk is typically sold in plastic one gallon, one quart or one pint containers. Maybe when you were a kid that milk came in a glass container.
As a consumer we need to make a choice on which product we buy and give the manufacturer feedback that we would prefer it DID NOT come in a PLASTIC jug.
I now buy Tide in those concentrated pods. That way there twice as many pods(wash loads)in the same size container. Kind of like Clorox is more concentrated and comes in a small container.
I no longer buy milk. But when I buy half and half it is in a cardboard container.
If this is what the consumer wants and is willing to pay for it, then the manufacturer will change the way they package their product.
I saw a “news” type TV show about a year ago and the reporter followed trucks picking up “recyclables.” He followed the trucks to the processing plant and from what they showed on camera, metals, plastics and paper bundled up separately and only a small amount of rubbish was left out of a mountain of garbage they began with.
Funny story. Where I used to work people were diligently separating trash materials into the separate bins provided by the company. The employees found out the facilities guys threw ALL trash together in the dumpster outside. Those gals were furious! It was absolutely hilarious!
LOL, I should have put the ‘/s’ tag!
I have always assumed recycling was a scam. A feel good, virtue-signaling act that you are forced to do so your trash is picked up.
We’ve known for years that all of the trash ends up in one place. The recycling cult is for virtue signaling.
I’ve always thought that would be a great way to dispose of trash
Dixie Lee Ray, former Washington Governor and former Atomic Energy Commissioner, was a speaker at some convention 30-40 years ago; and proved your point.
his plastic water bottle ended up at a landfill...
Next thing you know we’ll find out the water in that bottle didn’t come from a pure artesian well.
Tap water from Los Angeles?
Yep, I found out the same thing. I no longer recycle. Everything goes in the regular garbage container.
In the best article ever (”Recycling is Garbage”, New York Times Magazine ... 1991 I think), John Tierney said it’s the primary ritual of the new secular puritan religion.
True but of those that are less than 5% are recycled.
It's like the "penguins" in The Great Escape.
Thanks for that suggestion, I will see if I can find it...
Recycling plastic has always been a scam.
So the claim that "it all ends up in a landfill" - may not be completely accurate.
Requiring residents to sort recyclables means that the companies who use recycled plastic to make these products don't have to - that most of their work in this initial step is done for them.
It might be claimed that they get it from the ocean. Then the transportation costs would probably be higher. So it's more likely that they use domestic plastics provided by residential waste collectors - that's already sorted.
I have NEVER recycled one thing.
It’s a jobs program. Now we have 3 trash trucks picking up our garbage instead of 1.
It’s a jobs program. Now we have 3 trash trucks picking up our garbage instead of 1.
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