“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.
“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.
I flat out REFUSE to wash my garbage.
Only the diseased mind of a leftist would come up with such idiocy.
“It’s to protect the collectors.”
They can wear protective equipment, I have to at my job!