Ocasio-Cortez says she doesn’t recycle because it's too “tough” for her to understand

wordpress ^ | March 9, 2019 | Dan from Squirrel Hill

[grundle]

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says she doesn’t recycle her plastic bags because her city’s recycling program is too “tough” for her to understand

On February 24, 2019, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez posted a live video on her Instagram account where she was talking about different political issues while peeling and cutting sweet potatoes.

A guy named Gob Abierto posted several different excerpts from that video in a string of tweets at this link, which has since been deleted. I watched a bunch of those excerpts before the tweet string was deleted. The internet archive has a copy of the same tweet string at this link, but it doesn’t include the videos.

One thing that I remember from watching the excerpts is that Ocasio-Cortez tosses her plastic grocery bags and her sweet potato peelings into the same garbage can, which means that she didn’t recycle the plastic bags, and she didn’t compost the sweet potato peelings.

She also complained that they give her 10 plastic bags every time she goes to the grocery store.

She also said of plastic bags:

“I wish they didn’t exist.”

But no one forced Ocasio-Cortez to accept those plastic bags at the grocery store.

Millions of other Americas use reusable grocery bags that are made of materials other than plastic.

I’d be curios to hear Ocasio-Cortez explain why – if she hates plastic bags so much that she “wishes they didn’t exist” – she brings home 10 additional plastic bags every time she goes to the grocery store, instead of using the reusable, non-plastic bags that millions of other Americans use.

Here is a different video where Ocasio-Cortez says a similar thing. She states: (skip to 0:20)

“I can be upset that I get 10 plastic bags at the grocery store, and then have to toss out my plastic bags because the recycling program in the area is tough.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1EybnxYzKk

I think it’s incredibly hilarious and extremely hypocritical that someone who wants to hugely inconvenience everyone else by having the government embark on endeavors as gargantuan as banning fossil fuels, banning nuclear power, getting rid or airplanes, stopping cows from farting, and retrofitting every building in the country, is herself too lazy to do something as small and easy as buying reusable non-plastic bags, or to recycle the plastic bags that she does use.

For the record, I myself happen to believe that government mandated recycling of post-consumer garbage actually wastes more resources than it saves. My evidence for this belief is this New York Times article, which is called “Recycling Is Garbage.” It’s a great article, and I recommend that everyone read it.

[Fiddlstix]

[Thank You Rush]

Recycling doesn’t make any sense anymore. There is no market for the metal or glass that we all threw in recycle bins for years...Popular Mechanics ran an article about it some years ago and I stopped doing it! According to the article everything that is picked up is sent to the dump so the salary paid to the middle “men” is just money wasted!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks grundle. That's the first credible statement she's made in her political career.

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[Thank You Rush]

I DO return my plastic shopping bags back to the store....they ask shoppers to return them and provide the cans outside to deposit them in so they must be making some use of them.

[BigLittle]

https://dpw.dc.gov/service/residential-recycling-collection

1 on a scale of 1 to 10 difficulty level

[jetson]

Pole Dancer.

[IronJack]

The instructions on a shampoo bottle are too hard for HER to understand.

[butlerweave]

I thought New York city gave up recycling

[morphing libertarian]

I forget is it rinse and repeat or repeat and rinse.

[\/\/ayne]

Do me a favor Wayne. In the past couple weeks there have been at least four threads on the fallacy of recycling, especially curbside residential recycling. Look those up and read through them. I’ll bet your opinion changes.

I have been reading them and that's partly why I come to this conclusion. I also know a lot of engineers and my Dad was an engineer. I'm not an engineer but I am a fan of good engineering and problem-solving. I see in recycling a lot of problems but I think if someone made a list of them and assigned the proper team of engineers to each problem the teams could knock them down and make recycling feasible.

There is not a will to do it so it probably won't happen. It always makes me sad to see problems I know can be solved but won't be. However, I see a lot of those in the world so it's something I live with.

[556x45]

That generation you speak of has been with us for some time and seems to be flourishing. Theyve given us the likes of Obama, Hillary, AOC, the muslims currently serving in Congres etc etc etc.

[mumblypeg]

Soylent Green is people. The ultimate recycling goal of the Green New Deal.

[depressed in 06]

That stump is a lot smarter.

[fhayek]

I wish MY name was “Gob”.

[qaz123]

I’m under the impression that none of them write laws. The bureaucrats and staffers do and they just present them as if they did write them and vote. But, I will have to disagree that she’ll cast her votes based on what way she’s been told to vote. I don’t think anyone is going to tell her or the other 3 how to do anything. When it blows up in their faces, they’ll claim victimhood and a rookie mistake. When it doesn’t, they’ll parade around like conquering hero’s.

[BobL]

I don’t think recycling was intended for political leaders.

[CptnObvious]

Ocasio-Cortez says she doesn’t recycle because it's too “tough” for her to understand

She's doing more against Climate change than I've ever seen before. She keep opening her mouth and inserting both feet. It is amazing to watch.

[READINABLUESTATE]

Do as I say, not as I do.

[magua]

Our reusable grocery bags are cotton canvas.
They get thrown into the laundry when necessary
with towels. Easy-peasy.

[nicollo]

I DO return my plastic shopping bags back to the store....they ask shoppers to return them and provide the cans outside to deposit them in so they must be making some use of them.

I return my bags to the store, as well, but I do find that my grocery store, Giant, hardly prioritizes it. The container is usually overflowing and it is placed next to the Exit and not to the Entrance door, which is beyond stupid.

The whole idea of recycling plastic bags was to "save the trees" -- just another pathetic example of liberal idiocy. Worse, Mobile, which pushed the idea, found it couldn't recycle the plastic bags becuase people would leave receipts in the bags, which would render each recycling batch useless. A Mobile engineer figured out that the solution was not to try to remove the paper but to add more wood to it and turn it into something useful: see https://www.trex.com/

Whenever I shop in DC I pay the $0.05 tax for plastic bags because I figure that the revenue will keep the city from banning plastic bags outright.