'Moment of reckoning': US cities burn recyclables after China bans imports

The Guardian ^ | 21 Feb 2019

[Lurch Addams]

The conscientious citizens of Philadelphia continue to put their pizza boxes, plastic bottles, yoghurt containers and other items into recycling bins.

But in the past three months, half of these recyclables have been loaded on to trucks, taken to a hulking incineration facility and burned, according to the city’s government.

It’s a situation being replicated across the US as cities struggle to adapt to a recent ban by China on the import of items intended for reuse.

[fella]

That picture looks like our city lake after Cinco de Mayo.

[Zhang Fei]

[You know recycling is not cost effective if the Chinese can’t even afford to do it any longer.]

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Not only can the Chinese afford to do it, Chinese businesses want to buy it. But the government is preventing them from doing so. China recycles. The government is preventing Chinese companies from recycling higher quality Western garbage because they see this as somehow subservient. Making crap for Westerners isn’t subservient but recycling raw materials is subservient. The Communist Party is populated by retarded (and murderous) psychopaths. The only reason China has recorded decades of rapid growth has to do with the fact that the Party is sitting on a gold mine of one of the highest-average IQ populations in the world. I suppose we should be grateful that they rule the country, thereby guaranteeing that China will never achieve its full economic potential for the foreseeable future.

[fella]

"And the recycling companies feel REALLY GOOD about the big money they're making for performing an unnecessary "service."

That's Soprano Industries isn't it?

[Bernard Marx]

That's Soprano Industries isn't it?

Tony would roll over in his grave thinking about the racket he missed out on.

[TheNext]

I have never recycled, ever.

Mother Nature recycles for me. Trash is trash.

500 years from now, machines will be more efficient.
Mother Nature will thank the non recyclers like me.
Because we non recyclers showed the machines where to go to mine concentrated resources. Go to the former dumps.

You recyclers meanwhile, trashed the Environment, by processing garbage with lesser efficient, wasteful processes. And you hide your crimes with virtue signaling.

You recyclers trash our precious Environment.

We dumpers, love our Earthly Environment.

[shotgun]

Fair enough. I was being a bit sarcastic in my original post