God forbid it should be shredded and mixed into paving projectsrecycling is a sham.
This is why I think plastic needs to be burned to produce the much needed CO2 for plants.
Been happening right here in NY since the whole recycling craze began. What burns my biscuits is that the town keeps heaping new recycling rules to make things easier for them, while just dumping much of what they collect on recycling day along with the rest of the trash.
Not to worry...It should turn back into base molecules in 100,000 years or so.
At least nuclear power waste is down to uninteresting levels after only about 1,000 years
God forbid it should be shredded and mixed into paving projectsI am not sure how this is going to go but I hope it works out well.
I’m planning to get my trash bill reduced tomorrow or find another company. A while back they added a single stream recycling dumpster & the bill has gone up & up, and I found out I’m paying triple of some people with the same company. What a scam.
Where do they deposit the plastic they are harvesting from the ocean? They’re raising money on TV for cleaning the oceans.
Recycling is to make baby-boomers who were brainwashed in public schools in the 1960’s & 1970’s feel better about themselves.
I’ve got primarily baby-boomers in my neighborhood and they DEMAND to pay $40/month to separate their trash into recycle bins. The trash guys are known to dump both regular trash and recycled trash into the same truck.
Of course, these are the same boomers that live in large houses and drive large SUVs.
Here’s another story on recycling in Alabama:
Alabama is great at recycling other people’s trash - just not its own
It’s a jobs ploy by future archeologists. Without garbage they won’t have a job.
In NY CITY, the garbage inspectors have metal detectors to make sure all metal is placed in the appropriate bin. If they get one beep, landlord gets a fine.
How does one trow out a light bulb?
Paint brush?
Plastic hanger with metal parts?
It’s such a chore throwing out garbage in NYC. They’re so OCD about recycling, oh wait... it’s the fines that are an incentive to keep this sham going.
The problem is, most items are not able to be recycled.
That is, if it were worth doing, people would pick up your stuff for free. There has to be a demand. It makes people feel good to “recycle”, however outside a few items like Aluminum, Steel, maybe rags, etc, it is a huge money pit. Municipalities can’t afford it. The (expensive) trucks drive around picking up ... garbage ... that nobody wants and have to pay to get rid of.
My area uses a garbage can, and has a leaf/lawn waste pickup for extra cost. The lawn waste container does double duty as recycling every other month or whatever.
The latest, is that, (supposedly) due to “cross comtamination” of recyclables with yard waste, they can’t do this anymore. SO, they are looking at making it “mandatory” to recycle.
Sounds like BS to me. What else is new.
And just how much water was used, how much detergent sent into the eco-sysytem, how much energy spent to heat the water as she oh! so! carefully cleaned and sorted her recyclables? Not to mention the gas/fuel/energy used in driving two towns over (maybe she should have bicycled?).
It’s like taking the phosphates out of most detergents ... now you have to use 2 or more times the amount of soap and hot water to get dishes/household items as clean as before. Pre-sprays, oxi-clean, and multiple washes for clothes, too.
Do think maybe, just maybe, we should go back to U.S. made products (like Trump is trying to do) in order to allow for paper packaging of products that will no longer have to survive trans-Atlantic shipping? Perhaps kitty litter in bomb-proof packaging is not a good idea after all?!
Cheaper to make new than recycle.
What ever happened to thermal depolymerization of plastic for energy production?
We incinerate our garbage and it recently came out that the recycle plastic was being burned with all of the other refuse where I live. LMAO!
Most recycling material goes to the landfill. If you pay for recycling, it gets hand sorted before going to the landfill.
Does anyone else remember when scare mongers told us 80 percent of landfills would be full by the year 2000?