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Ocasio-Cortez says she doesn’t recycle because it's too “tough” for her to understand
wordpress ^ | March 9, 2019 | Dan from Squirrel Hill

Posted on 03/09/2019 8:30:58 AM PST by 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.


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KEYWORDS: aoc; berniesanders; communist; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; ilhanomar; michigan; minnesota; newyork; ocasiocortez; rashidatlaib; recycling; toostupidtolive; tstl; vermont
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To: grundle

61 posted on 03/09/2019 10:12:20 AM PST by Fiddlstix (blockquote)
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To: grundle

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!


62 posted on 03/09/2019 10:17:10 AM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Thanks grundle. That's the first credible statement she's made in her political career.

63 posted on 03/09/2019 10:18:10 AM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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To: 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.


64 posted on 03/09/2019 10:20:35 AM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: grundle

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

1 on a scale of 1 to 10 difficulty level


65 posted on 03/09/2019 10:21:23 AM PST by BigLittle (Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions" --G K Chesterton)
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To: grundle

Pole Dancer.


66 posted on 03/09/2019 10:26:25 AM PST by jetson
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To: grundle

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


67 posted on 03/09/2019 10:27:36 AM PST by IronJack
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To: grundle

I thought New York city gave up recycling


68 posted on 03/09/2019 10:34:18 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: IronJack

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


69 posted on 03/09/2019 10:39:50 AM PST by morphing libertarian (I maUse Comey's Report; Indict Hillary now; build Kate's wall. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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To: cyclotic
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.
70 posted on 03/09/2019 10:50:05 AM PST by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: Spok

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.


71 posted on 03/09/2019 11:07:26 AM PST by 556x45
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To: grundle

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


72 posted on 03/09/2019 11:11:26 AM PST by mumblypeg (I've seen the future, brother. It is murder. --L. Cohen)
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To: carriage_hill

That stump is a lot smarter.


73 posted on 03/09/2019 11:27:50 AM PST by depressed in 06 (60 in '20.)
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To: grundle

I wish MY name was “Gob”.


74 posted on 03/09/2019 11:31:06 AM PST by fhayek
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To: ealgeone

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.


75 posted on 03/09/2019 11:34:15 AM PST by qaz123
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To: grundle

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


76 posted on 03/09/2019 11:42:15 AM PST by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't tell anyone.)
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To: grundle
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.

77 posted on 03/09/2019 12:16:54 PM PST by CptnObvious (Question her now.)
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To: grundle

Do as I say, not as I do.


78 posted on 03/09/2019 2:03:50 PM PST by READINABLUESTATE (I hate baby killing pedophile socialist gun grabbers)
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To: AndyJackson

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


79 posted on 03/09/2019 2:32:52 PM PST by magua
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To: 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.

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.
80 posted on 03/09/2019 3:04:30 PM PST by nicollo (I said no!)
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