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Posted on 07/07/2026 6:22:41 AM PDT by Red Badger
Looks like another “conspiracy theory” just came true again!
To quote Yogi Berra it’s like “deja vu all over again” these days with conspiracy after conspiracy being proven 100% true.
The latest is the Myth of Recycling, or as John Stossel put it: “the Green Religion” otherwise known as Gaia Worship.
I’ve been telling people for years that Recycling is a scam.
Recycling is “garbage”, no pun intended….
I have no doubt some people mean well by it, but it simply doesn’t work!
Most of it does not end up actually getting recycled and the time, energy and “carbon dioxide” that we put into Recycling is far greater and does far more harm than if we’d simply throw the stuff in the garbage.
People have laughed at me when I’ve told them that, but now it’s proven 100% accurate.
A big thanks to John Stossel for his excellent video and for Elon Musk who amplified the message on X this morning:
And in case you need a backup, here is the same video on YouTube.
I will also post the full transcript of the video below in case that’s easier for you.
Please enjoy — and then share this to wake some more people up to the scam of the Green Religion:
FULL TRANSCRIPT:
Do you recycle? For sure, absolutely. Absolutely everything I possibly can. For decades we’ve been told Recycle America. Don’t just throw it all away. Because recycling will save the planet. You’re saving the Earth!
And that’s what people believe. We have to do it for the kids, for the next generation. This will all be back on the shelf as a cracker or cereal box in about 4-5 weeks. This recycling company is run by Lynn Hoffman. If we’re not using recycled paper and cardboard we’re cutting down more trees.
Recycling paper and cardboard does save trees. Recycling aluminum does save energy. But most of the other stuff is impractical to recycle. That’s right.
This is material that came into the recycling facility from people’s recycling carts, but is going to leave as trash. Huge amounts of what people send to her recycling plant will never be recycled. The worst is plastic which for years has been marked with a recycling symbol. We see stuff like this all the time, recycling arrows on it, “please recycle.” It’s not recyclable. Even worse, plastic bags clog the recycling machines.
We have to climb in for a couple hours every day and cut them out with the box cutter. But people think most of our plastic is recycled. Yeah, I do think so.
Is it not, you gonna tell me it’s not? That’s the trick? The reality is that The amount of plastic actually recycled is around 5%.
Wow. I figured there was something coming, but I’m, I’m, I’m shocked right now. I didn’t know. It’s sad.
[Cans tossed] All my life, I’ve heard about how important it is to recycle. It’s not. Science writer John Tierney debunked recycling claims years ago. His New York Times Magazine story “Recycling is Garbage” set a record for Times hate mail.
And yet What you said is still true? It’s even more true today. In fact, the economics have just gotten worse.
Now my city would save more than $300 million a year if it just stopped recycling. Recycling is an industry that is using increasingly expensive labor to produce materials that are worth less and less. Because it’s not worth recycling here, much is shipped overseas to countries like Malaysia where it’s just piled up.
A vast field of plastic. Two stories high. Some of it from America. See if we can look on the back here. Marysville, Ohio.
Look! Walmart bag. That pollutes even more and what they don’t burn, they sometimes dump in the ocean.
One garbage truck of plastic is dumped in the sea every minute. Barely any of that plastic comes from American shores so [Dolphin noise]
If you care about saving Flipper, you should put your plastic bottle in the garbage. [Truck running over garbage] The garbage? But then it would go to a landfill. And aren’t we running out of space for landfills? I’m sure we are. People believe that because for years the media said We’ve about run out of places to throwaway our throwaways. They think that because years ago there was so much publicity about this barge. A symbol of this country’s growing problems with trash. The barge travelled thousands of miles looking for a place to dump its load.
But it wasn’t because there wasn’t room. States turned this barge away because alarmist media scared people about what it contained. There could be infection waste. Dripping brown ooze of possibly infectious material. We don’t know what kind of tropical vermin is in that garbage. But the EPA later found it was normal garbage. And landfills had plenty of room for that. Today they have more space than we’ll ever need. If you think of the United States as a football field, all the garbage that we will generate in the next 1000 years would fit inside a tiny fraction of the one inch line. Really!? Oh, that’s surprising.
On top of that, today’s landfills are not the polluters they once were. Some sensible regulations make sure they don’t pollute. Eventually landfills are turned into ski hills, parks and golf courses. [Clink] Putting garbage here is much cheaper than recycling, so why do towns keep pushing recycling?
They do it because people demand it. It’s a sacrament of the green religion. I rinse my cans, I take my labels off if there’s plastic on, that’s something that’s paper. I take the plastic piece off of it. That’s fine if they wanna do it voluntarily, but we shouldn’t mandate that.
It’s not my religion. I don’t wanna perform that sacrament. I don’t want to either. It’s time consuming and complicated.
My city orders us, follow all these rules. And that’s one of the reasons recycling fails is because it’s so complicated people never learn the rules and why should they be spending their free time learning these rules? Worse, lots of what we do is pointless.
If you rinse a plastic bottle in hot water, the net result is more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere than if you threw it in the garbage. Even Greenpeace said, most plastic simply cannot be recycled. So what’s Greenpeace’s solution? Let’s stop producing it. You’re saying, don’t use plastic at all.
Ban plastic. I think that’s where we’re headed. No more plastic? But plastic often creates less emissions than alternatives. Environmental groups rarely mention that, or how they misled us about recycling for years. It’s appalling that after telling people for three decades to recycle, they don’t even apologize for all the time and money that they wasted, instead they have an even worse proposal that will make life even worse and even more expensive.
One time-consuming dream of theirs is a “circular economy” where everything is reused. If you’re running out a laundry detergent, you could take your jug back to the store and fill it up instead of buying another one. That’s really the goal. But people don’t want to, you’re, you’re, you’re asking them to do things
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recycling all metals is a big win vs smelting ores to make new metals, particularly aluminum, which is often referred to as frozen electricity due to the way bauxite ore is converted into aluminum metal ... metals can be recycled forever, and some types of high-grade ores are disappearing, requiring lower grade ores to be smelted at greater costs ....
anything made from kraft paper such as corrugated cardboard [not paperboard, which is worthless] is worth recycling as well ...
household glass containers are also worth recycling in terms of energy savings relative to manufacturing new glass ...
I refuse to waste money (water) and time rinsing out my garbage.
The large wheeled recycle bin gets out out once or twice a year…full of leaves.
Curbside recycling is a complete scam perpetrated on stupid people.
There is some minor benefit to industrial recycling of certain metals.
In reality (a place that exists even in the face of environmentalist deniers) we should be mining old landfills to fuel garbage to energy plants.
Most plastics are not commercially viable for recycling, but provide excellent fuel value for garbage to energy.
And while we are at it...
Alongside coal fired electrical generation are vast heaps of calcium sulfate that was used to clean the combustion emissions.
Chances are there are heaps of thse things all across the country...waiting to be mined for rare earth elements
Before I got kicked off the nextdoor app I got into a discussion this.
A guy that said he worked in city sanitation here has 2st hand knowledge of our county recycling program.
He said the only difference between garbage and recycled items was they just go into different holes in the ground.
They tell us here were supposed to wash out or rinse off recycled stuff so it’s clean when it gets to the recycling plant.
So I have to use a resource that I have to pay for 4
every month to support recycling?
F that noise.
We’ve all seen the videos of all the recycle bins being dumped into one large garbage collection can or truck by the garbage men.
The City of Minneapolis was (is?) paying thousands of dollars/month to rent storage trailers to house the tons of newspaper being “recycled”. There is no market for the end product, no one wants it. Total drain on taxpayers, once again.
Has it not dawned on them that there are hardly any real newspapers anymore?............
Downtown Nashville used to have a thermal plant. They burned the trash and sent the heat through ducts under the sidewalks.
Eventually it was shut down.
With the Messiah Soetero gone, the oceans are rising again, we in Florida will need those “mountains” to move to. Don’t recycle, pile it high!
https://search.brave.com/videos?q=where+to+aluminum+cans+go%3F+youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PR5mykiFzN4
Well, why not just burn the plastic for heat since it’s made from oil...
I’m also impressed that standardized heavy duty bins can be quickly emptied by one guy in a truck, instead of a driver and 2 potential workman’s comp cases in the back emptying trash cans.
The good news is you get Virtue Points for it for saving the eart.
That makes too much sense.
It can also be made into gasoline and diesel.
That also makes too much sense........
It would have to be preprocessed (means $$ & bother!) in some way otherwise you will get toxic combustion byproducts.
I wish the trash company would advertise this
I’ve been telling people for years it’s a scam as well- but they’d rather feel virtuous chatting about how they are saving environment while getting their next booster . Bring back critical thinking skills.
My sanitation company will not recycle glass and accepts only aluminum, paper, cardboard, plastics. They explain why on their web-site basically glass processing is very expensive. So to keep their rates reasonable (<$90/qtr), no glass.
Only Al recycling makes sense, since it is far easier to melt/reuse than mine.
Not so for glass, so many colors and formulations makes it not cost effective.
The rest is all Bullshitte. Has been from the time when recycling electronics was discovered to be nothing but ship it all to China and dump it in a field. CaCaLand continues the lie since the extra fee is skimmed by the politicos.
“people rinsing every single little drink bottle or can”
You need a serious lesson in how much water it takes to mine the Bauxite to make a single can. Let alone the diesel fuel for the massive line haul trucks the 100 tonne kind with 20 foot tall tires on them that cost over 50K per tire. Then the huge amounts of water soluble chemicals needed to strip out the alumina ore from the toxic red mud that’s then left in ponds to be toxic for all eternity unlike spent fuel that eventually will decay red mud is chemicals toxic for all eternity. Then the massive amounts of electric current needed to refine alumina ore into it’s metal form. There is a reason Alcoa is located right next to lignite mines in Texas and hydro energy in Iceland.
Recycling a single aluminum can requires just 5% of the energy needed to mine and process new metal from bauxite ore. Read that again so you get it.
It’s 4 to 1 red mud to alumina raw ore as well.
Aluminum is the most recycled material on the planet 75% of all aluminum ever mined is still in circulation because it’s so much more energy efficient to recycle vs mine, refine,process and form new aluminum.
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