I recently read that China stopped taking the recycling from the US.
Outside of metal it makes no sense to recycle.
US could cut 10% of its environmental footprint by deporting illegal aliens.
But then the oligarchy would not have the votes it needs to launder billions of dollars via “redistribution”.
I’ve said this here before: The day someone offers to buy your trash you will know that recycling makes economic sense. Until then it’s just a liberal feel-good scam paid for (as always) with tax dollars, and another way to make people be sheep.
My area decided to stop taking glass for recycling. And Slope top cartons like milk cartons. Not economically feasible anymore.
They already don’t take metals.
What then is the point? What about the planet which was their original argument for running 2 trucks to pick up trash?
Screw ‘em...I quit. They can bury it all.
It would also help if we used glass containers that had a return deposit where possible. A lot of beer already comes in glass bottles or aluminum cans. People can sell the aluminum and it would be great if there was a return on the glass.
As a kid we made money by finding Coke bottles and returning them for spending money.
If it has been "recycled" it has by definition been reused and what is stated above is nonsensical. Dumping UNRECYCLED garbage in 3rd world sh!tholes is not a nice thing to do, though.
Plastic recycling is polluting our oceans.
TRUTH
I don’t get it. If governments want to encourage recycling, why not offer tax breaks to biz that use recycled materials?
The more you need to encourage the recycling of certain materials for whatever reason, the bigger the tax break.
Has that been tried anywhere?
BTW, New York is not a country.
If they had the guts to incinerate the trash and use that heat to power turbines, it would be a great energy source.
Something like 80-90% of the oceanic garbage, comes from a few rivers, in Africa and Asia. So, for all your “no plastic straw” idiots... you won’t be stopping anything, other than making yourselves feel good.
I recycle only because it’s there.
But yes it’s ridiculous. Most of this stuff cannot be recycled continuously. Even if it could the effort to do so outweighs the benefit. ROI stinks.
Of course it’s just a feel-good program so that affluent people can “do their part” to help “save the planet”. The fact that you’re charged to recycle shows it’s a scam. If the material was so valuable, you’d be paid for it.
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.