Posted on 03/08/2019 10:23:36 AM PST by SeekAndFind
where we are we pay more for a ‘regular’ trash bin, and less for a secodn recycle bin- I don’t care where they throw it all- we now have two bins for cheaper than if we had gotten two ‘regular’ trash bins
I remember reading a paper back in the 1970s that did an energy usage study on recycling. The paper’s conclusion was recycling was very high in energy use. Higher then making new material!
It might have been in Science - back when they would publish both sides of an issue!
Well it is...but they NEVER ONCE mention Phuket Christmas tsunami
I mean a quarter of a million people died and whole communities were swept off the face of the earth. Where the h*&l do they think all that stuff went?
If they could EVER just once be honest.
Meh. Penn and Teller exposed this well over a decade ago.
I don’t recycle. I throw away glass and metal and burn everything else. I produce very little garbage.
bkmk
That Penn and Teller episode where they had the guy agree to sorting into 20 bins out front was hilarious...almost as funny as watching my dad rinse out bottles and cans for the recycle bin.
Told him a million times he is both wasting water and time.
“What about all the time it takes in the household to wash and sort all this stuff? Recycling may be the most wasteful activity in modern America: a waste of time and money, a waste of human and natural resources.”
So it keeps them busy between Big Macs. ;)
The garbage company INSISTS on getting clean recyclables.
Yep, that’s why our recycle bill has risen from $90 every 2 months to $115.
I do not mind recycling cardboard and paper...
Fact is, recycling paper is much harder on the environment than just making it from fresh trees. And they now grow the trees like they grow corn. We don’t recycle corn either. Or potatoes. We grow a new crop.
Recycling paper requires the use of harmful chemical baths to remove glue, ink, and color. Creating paper from fresh trees is very environmentally friendly. And the trees they use to make paper are a cottonwood hybrid that grows almost as fast as your lawn. They are grown in rows just like a big cornfield.
When it costs more to recycle than it does to create new, you consume more of Mother Gaia’s resources than you save. People have a hard time figuring that out for some reason. You have better luck arguing the Bible with a religious zealot than you do with these people.
the landfills in our area all resell the methane as fuel.
One of them has an 18 hole golf course on it.
When I was a kid, I lived in a housing projects where we’d stuff our fuel down a trash chute into an incinerator that was used to heat the buildings.
There is an electronics recycler that had a building that all of a sudden was closed. Turned out they moved into a larger ( huge ) facility nearby. They mine the electronics for precious metals..
The rest of the recylers in the area are closing their facilities.
My driveway is 1/4 mile long. It’s literally easier for me to take my garbage to work with me and throw it in a sidewalk public trash receptacle, which is exactly what I do.
We throw all Keurig cups, metal and glass into a wal-mart plastic bag hanging in the pantry and every few days there will be a full bag to take to work with me. The rest goes into the trash cans out back. Every few weeks their content gets burned.
We have no garbage bill. However, it’s not about the money (~$25 a month) It’s about the convenience. It’s EASIER to take a small bag with me to work every day than to haul the garbage cans 1/4 mile to the street.
And I work in a different county where I pay a county income tax. This “garbage service” is the one thing I get out of it. :)
“Metals are the only thing that is viable to recycle.”
Agree, and it’s easy to sort metal from non-metal where the trash is handled. It’s a waste of everyone’s time to do all of this sorting and returning ourselves.
I’ve taken bags of cans to a church that collects and receives the deposit from them. It just isn’t worth my time to stand in front of a machine to get the returns myself.
Saw some of this recycling idiocy when I was doing contract work in Iraq. The military had recycle bins in all the mess halls. The Chinese took all the aluminum cans, but the rest went straight to the landfills as Iraq had zero, zilch, nada recycling capability. It was just stupid.
Recycling is just an indoctrination program like any other. Global Warming, tree hugging, etc.
Designed to give young socialist minds something to think about without actually accomplishing anything.
Recycle metals and use the rest for clean fuel: Magnegas TRNX
Do your own due diligence but this stock is so undervalued right now it’s just stupid.
Around here you can’t give cardboard away for recycling.
I refused to take the contracted trash hauler’s recycle bin and saved 40.00 a year. This offset the cost of a large trash bin keeping 25.00 in my pocket.
Prisoners could be used to sort trash
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