It’s about controlling personal behavior, and turning us into little parrots.
RBG finally passes away. Hillary immediately calls President Trump.
Hillary: "RBG was an icon, the greatest jurist of our age and an inspiration for women around the world. It's only fitting that I should take her place."
DJT: "It's ok with me if the undertaker doesn't mind."
Always believed this. Crazy how society has been duped into excessive recycling. I understand metals but nothing else.
Have been saying it was a waste of everyone’s time for years. Send it to a sorting facility and BURN what you can.
Measuring things in terms of carbon dioxide is idiotic and foolish. We should recycle metals because of what happens when you dig stuff up. We should recycle paper because of the stuff that happens when you process trees. Same with glass. It isn’t the production of carbon dioxide that causes recycled aluminum to be useful it’s the mining and processing of bauxite ore and the big holes that have to be dug to get it, usually in some other country where we don’t see it. And paper because of water pollution by paper factories that use bleach to make it white.
Our city provides us with a “regular garbage” can and a recycle can. Biggest reason I use the recycle is to keep from overflowing the regular garbage can.
“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.”
The garbage company INSISTS on getting clean recyclables. Instead of them doing it on an industrial scale, they want me to do it. I’ve dutifully stood at the sink cleaning out the insides of jars and cans with hot water, watching all that scarce and valuable California water going down the drain AND all the high priced natural gas needed to heat that water with it.
It finally dawned on me that there is no payback to this when you consider my time and the resources to get the stuff clean enough to make the garbage company happy. So I quit doing that — they now get dirty food jars and cans.
With a trash compactor in our new house, the two of us are down to one heavy bag a week including the stuff that used to be recycled. It’s so much easier now. And the recyclables are going to wind up in the same place they would have wound up — the landfill.
I do not mind recycling cardboard and paper...
I do recycle metals that I store months then SELL for cash. If they pay me for it I know they are making money on the process.
I do not recycle anything else...
Metals are the only thing that is viable to recycle.
Plastics and paper/cardboard not wanted for recycling should be incinerated for their energy, not buried. That way they don’t fill our landfills, and we get some useful energy back out of them.
The public and politicians are so scientifically and economically illiterate that I despair of things ever getting better.
This article is so much crap. All of the arguments are based on global warming arguments. Methane comes from decaying plant matter in a landfill but the plant matter all came from carbon dioxide.
The thing about methane being a greenhouse gas is more malarkey. Elemental carbon is the 4th most abundant element in the entire universe, yet in all its forms it is at best the 14th most abundant element in the earth’s crust. The difference is caused by methane which is lighter than most atmospheric gases floating up to the upper atmosphere and getting carried away by the solar wind. It doesn’t have enough time to make the earth warmer.
Garbage is Garbage no matter what you call it
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.
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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.
Yep, that’s why our recycle bill has risen from $90 every 2 months to $115.