Video evidence shows that recycling hurts the environment, and landfills help the environment

wordpress ^ | July 2, 2019 | Dan from Squirrel Hill

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Video evidence shows that recycling hurts the environment, and landfills help the environment

Below are two videos.

The first video shows that much of the recycled garbage from rich countries (the U.K. in this case) gets sent to poor countries, where it just sits there on the ground without any covering or protection, getting blown around, and often ending up in rivers and ultimately the ocean.

The second video shows a landfill in a rich country (New York in this case). The landfill is well sealed and covered, and is now a park with grass, trees, plants, and animals.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zcMfDbxmgU

Recycling is a scam. It makes people feel good, but it actually hurts the environment instead of helping it. The environment would be a lot better off if we stopped recycling, and put our garbage into landfills. The proof is in the videos.

[cyclotic]

Exactly!!

[shotgun]

If any Freeper lives in an city with a high Hispanic population, I suggest you go to your local City Council meeting and ask if they have a sewer jetting program. They will. Then ask for a list of streets in the high Hispanic population area and find out how often they have to jet the sewer mains that run through there. I guarantee they will be jetting those on a weekly or every two week basis because of the amount of grease and fat they use to cook with. If they don't jet, then the grease and fat will congeal to the pipe and become almost impossible to remove. This causes back up and property damage

[the OlLine Rebel]

Latins are great at messes.

We’ve cleaned up some park areas for scouts and find all kinds of rubbish just buried in the ground. They don’t put it in receptacles. And they brazenly leave disgusting diapers out with it all.

Never mind the messes they make of houses that 20 of them live in.

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Other Asian countries have replaced China.

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The so-called “recycled” garbage that we send to Asia has’t really been recycled. “Sorted” would be a more accurate word.

[grundle]

Good point.

[grundle]

America sends the plastic to China. China leaves it sitting outside - uncovered and unprotected - where it gets blown by the wind. A lot of it ends up in rivers, and then the ocean.

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My wife had a young 20-something Hispanic girl in their office yesterday for training. Before she left she used the women’s room and was in there about 20 minutes or more.

Soon after she left, my wife went in to use it and the young gal had plugged the toilet. She even turned off the water to it to keep it from overflowing. She never made an attempt to plunge it.

My wife and her staff figure the young gal had similar experiences since she knew to shut the water off.

[mbrfl]

I’m not saying that recycling is always practical, but the article is misleading. When developed nations collect recyclables and ship them off to third world countries rather than ensuring they’re actually recycled, the environmental damage is not being caused by recycling in the strictest sense. So recycling itself isn’t bad for the environment, as the headline portrays.

The problem is the economics. It’s not always cost effective to recycle. If that’s the case, don’t lie to the public and tell them their recyclables will be recycled, then ship them off to some third world nation to lie out in the open. Better to be honest with the people and dispose of properly if recycling doesn’t make sense.