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

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

[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

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[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.