Plastic should be burned to make electricity.
Guilty. Of course I do believe in the single stream thing.
It is all virtue signaling.
Burn all garbage for electricity. Put scrubbers on the stacks to keep things clean. The left wants you as a helpless peasant.
NPR is owned by the Left and the Homo LObby.
“Recycling is a scam.”
Some recycling is a scam. Glass and paper recycling can be reasonable, as the article describes, plastic recycling is mostly terrible.
Recycling doesn't work, but liberals don't care. They're about making themselves feel like they're contributing. They don't care if their contribution is totally symbolic.
The solution is the development of easily degradable plastic. The problem to overcome is how to stop biodegradable plastic containers from biodegrading on the supermarket shelf.
Going back to glass is another possible solution. No joke, liberals recently were pushing the idea that there is a sand shortage.
“Recycling plastic is practically impossible”
Perhaps, but burning plastic is no more impossible than burning fossil fuels. And you can generate electricity by doing that, instead of costing us electricity in a futile attempt to “recycle” them.
It takes fossil fuels to recycle, lots of fossil fuels. But they have to cheaper than the price to recycle. There’s not going to be recycling when energy is too expensive.
And worse, these stupid 'feel good' virtue signaling stuns stop us from coming up with rational solutions that would work.
I was out walking yesterday and saw a neighbors new recycling toter had a sign on the lid saying what could go in, and plastic was shown as “garbage” - not for recycling.
It is no longer mandatory here so everything goes into the trash toter. That’s why it’s called “trash”.
Maybe someday they will admit the truth and the original redirection of plastic from landfills to “recycling” has actually created far more pollution and problems than if we had just kept burying it in landfills int the first place.
Recycling has always been a scam. Itās one of those things people virtue signal. Virtue signaling just makes me want to do the opposite. I havenāt recycled my trash for over 20 years. I donāt recycle because my time is valuable and I know that most things are not recycled. I donāt work to enrich scammers. A landfill is perfectly fine with me. But ā¦ The next thing we will hear about is the danger of landfills and there is no room for expansion. That by the way will be a ārecycledā crisis. We may even have a garbage barge thatās unable to dock and unload. Thereās plenty of room for landfills. Just look out and down from an airplane on a coast-to-coast flight.
I used to go to the major dump/landfill outside of Sacramento a couple times a year with misc. household trash (big family). On several occasions I’d see the “recycle” trucks that picked up recycle bins all over the county. I asked a dump employee once about why the recycle trucks were there. He said the recycle facilities have only so much capacity. Usually by late Tuesday or Wednesday they’d have to redirect the trucks from the recycle facilities to the landfill/dump where they would dump with the trash all those bottles and cans and newspapers that the useful idiots spent their weeks rinsing out and sorting and carefully placing in the right bins.
I remember being a kid in the 50s and almost no consumer product came in plastic packaging. Toothpaste was in nice metal tubes that stayed rolled up. My dadās āVetoā deodorant came in little glass tubs. Groceries were brought home in brown paper bags. Milk came in glass bottles. There were no plastic baggies with āziplockā tops for storing things. Gasoline cans for the mower were steel. I remember we derided all the cheap plastic products coming out of post-war Japan. You couldnāt find a single plastic part in a car. Ground coffee was put in the percolator and no plastic K-Cup pods went to waste. You just dumped the wet grounds in the garbage.
In that era, landfills didnāt receive a single plastic package. Itās hard to believe that, somehow, we managed to live our lives without plastic.
Is NPR saying the 1950s was the high point in American civilization and society?
They lie. We sell it to China and what we don’t goes to the ocean (a selected area). Then they ban straws, as if it’s Joe bloes fault. Recycling is no more than a way to keep folks busy, while feeling ‘good’ about saving something. Like slapping a flag on your profile pic. It does nothing, but you appear virtuous to the nitwits.
I miss glass bottles. My water, soda pop et al didn’t taste like plastic and I got candy money as a kid from returning them.
Finally!!!!
Sweet vindication.
I have been saying this for DECADES..
recycling is a scam, and the end user is the one that pays.
That little blue or green tub you have to put your stuff into?
You get charged for having it...
Go back to glass containers. Or are all of those factories shut down now or making plastic bottles and such and re-tooling would be too costly? Last time I looked SAND was plentiful - but Mother Government will now close all sand pits, LOL!
Have you ever seen a country such as ours, where ‘progress’ is anything BUT?!?!?
Our Cow Town of less than 300 people (and a few thousand cows) just GOT recycling containers three years ago. I’ll bet you a 6-pack (in plastic) that it’s still ALL going to the same dumpsite.
More ‘progress!’ *SNORT*