Posted on 06/30/2020 8:26:22 PM PDT by Olog-hai
We sort ours into two types.
Stuff that fits in the huge black bags and smaller stuff in the white bags.
The waste will sit unused for months, then get shipped to China, which will promptly incinerate it.
happens in america too
once recycling plants reach capacity each year, usually by the end of month 3, all the recycled collected stuff goes to the landfill too.
more govt jobs
more fees
more ways govt can fine people
Something to consider - all those plastic tubs on wheels have bar or QR codes. These tubs are all over the place. I’ve seen them pop up in youtube videos from Russia, Japan, China, the whole PLANET is using them now!
Unless I’m missing something, the only reason to have codes on these tubs is to identify the user (can’t say owner because the waste hauler owns them). The tub are designed to eliminate handling by humans, they are loaded into modified garbage trucks by mechanical means. While I have no first hand knowledge, the addition of digital strain gauges to measure weight allows the local green police to monitor an individual’s output of recyclables and potentially take action if the output is not up to desired levels. Add computer vision and a neural network to see what’s being thrown our as well.
Throw all that data into a spreadsheet in each citizen’s file and Big Green Brother will be a happy, and dangerous despot.
I have one container...my trash can. Everything goes to the dump. And I mean everything. I don’t recycle anything.
I think you’re probably right. Recycling is very uneconomical, and most systems are what our county solid-waste representative called “aspirational,” encouraging people to do something that “feels” as though it’s good for the environment but has no practical benefit.
China stopped taking it.
Throughout history, the most prosperous nations have polluted the least. It is because they can afford spending some of their wealth to keep their environment clean. The Left clearly doesn’t understand this, as it also doesn’t understand how wealth is created.
Wealth is created ONLY when human labor produces more value than the cost of the labor. Human labor always has a cost associated with it. There is simply a total limit on the availability of human labor. When this labor is wasted by sorting and storing, and dealing with trash, the human labor cost far exceeds the value. Wealth is destroyed when this human labor cost is higher than the value produced. Wealth will decline, and society will suffer.
The left understands just fine, but whatever impedes their path to power is a sin to them.
True, but what they don’t understand is that ruling a nation that squanders its wealth will ultimately squander their own power, as well.
“Recycling is very uneconomical”
That’s the tragedy. If individual components are expensive enough then they would be recycled.
“Recycling is very uneconomical...”
I’ve been saying for years that if recycling made sense economically, people would be paying me for my garbage.
It’s interesting that when the city holds “bulk waste pickup” days, squads of people turn out to look for anything that might be worth something. The city even encourages residents to put their items out a couple of days early, because anything taken by a scavenger doesn’t have to be picked up and taken to a landfill.
My husband and I were just walking for exercise, but I couldn’t resist a pair of LL Bean rain boots (children’s medium, like-new condition) and a pile heavy-duty plywood cut into 8-inch squares.
Large-scale recycling kind of breaks even if you can get enough aluminum cans or clean glass bottles.
10 bins? Gonna get awful crowded in the street on trash collection day.
Red Green moved to Denmark? Who knew...
“squads of people turn out to look for anything that might be worth something”
Sounds like a great idea. You keep what you find.
However, wonder if a scavenger got hurt. Geez the lawsuits that would come.
So we send the stuff to China and let them scavenge it.
There are a lot of otherwise empty boats going back to china, you know.
The liability question doesn’t seem to stop anyone in these parts.
why only 10, couldn’t this be even better with 15 or 20?
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