Posted on 06/23/2019 3:32:55 PM PDT by rktman
A sign on an upside-down dumpster spelled the end of Pearl Pai’s long romance with plastics recycling.
For years, Pai and her family generated almost no trash. She carefully washed, sorted and bagged hard-to-recycle items and drove them two towns over from her home in Berkeley, California, to the area’s best recycling center.
But on a gray morning in late May, when she pulled up with a bag of flimsy plastic clamshell-style containers, yogurt tubs and meat trays, the sign informed her that, “due to poor market conditions”, these items would no longer be accepted for recycling.
This is a reality that millions more Americans will have to adjust to.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
something like 25 years ago I lived in NYC under a mandatory recycling regime
even then they were just bringing the recycling to the dump with everything else... it was a total sham top to bottom
I'm 68 and knew that 50 years ago.
FMCDH(BITS)
There is a garbage burning plant near where I live as I drive to work, that sells the electricity for profit. Occasionally I’ll see a protestor or two standing by the road outside of it. I guess they’re pro landfill or something.
It always has been, just like the pot metal drives of WWII.
But it makes people feeeeeeel good.
But at least during WWII it was something that helped with morale.
Our town is “progressive”. We have now embraced “single stream recycling” where you dump ALL your trash into ONE bin, no need to separate - it’s magic.
Baby boomers know better than to have suckered for the recycling game. It is their offspring who fell for it, just as they do climate change. Boomers were told by their parents all about the government’s drive to have families donate their pot metal for the war effort. That particular material has no military use, so it was bull-dozed into trenches. It did make the suckers feel that they had contributed something.
That is all climate change efforts and recycling do in this age.
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