Recycling has always been a scam. It’s one of those things people virtue signal. Virtue signaling just makes me want to do the opposite. I haven’t recycled my trash for over 20 years. I don’t recycle because my time is valuable and I know that most things are not recycled. I don’t work to enrich scammers. A landfill is perfectly fine with me. But … 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 “recycled” crisis. We may even have a garbage barge that’s unable to dock and unload. There’s plenty of room for landfills. Just look out and down from an airplane on a coast-to-coast flight.
My hilarious recycling story is from my pre retirement days.
I worked in an office tower in a mid sized city.
We had recycle bins even twenty feet or so around the office.
One of my co-workers who lived in the city decided that it would be amusing to follow the garbage contractor for the building and see what they did with the recycle bin materials.
First they put them in huge recycle bins and brought the bins down the service elevator.
Outside at the ground level my “spy” friend watched them to see what happened next.
They took everything in the recycle bins and dumped it into the regular garbage bins before loading it on to trucks.
There were no separate recycle trucks at all.
We all had a big laugh about that....