http://www.williams.edu/HistSci/curriculum/101/garbage.html
I guess he couldn’t sell the book so he ran it in the NYT. I agree with the writer, but couldn’t force myself to read the entire piece.
Heresy. You are not allowed to challenge liberal orthodoxy.
Read this:
source:
http://www.freedominion.com.pa/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=1141523#1141523
Posted: 05 Feb 2008 17:08
Let me tell you a little story about that Island I grew up on, and recycling...
( And it’s pre-web, otherwise I’d give you supporting links. )
About 15 years ago, the County Commission, which runs the county ( and the Island as well ) made a great hoo-rah! about recycling— everybody had to do it.
They made the old Air National Guard compound at the airport- near the center of the place— the recycling center, with colo(u)r-coded dumpsters for paper, and plastic, and garbage, and aluminum... so on and so forth.
The citizens had to separate their trash, and place it in the containers— and bear in mind, before this forced nonsense, they had had garbage trucks that made curbside pickups once a week.
Now, everyone no only had to haul their own garbage, but sort it and place it...
It was fascinating to observe- a lot of these folks were retirees, so feeble they toddled in walkers- but everyone was firmly convinced “they were doing a good thing, and making sacrifices, for the sake of the Environment...”
But it so happened, that after a few years, one of the local paper’s reporters got curious about all this noise, and decided to follow the trucks that carried away the trash...
Surprise, surprise! ( Hattip: Gomer Pile, USMC... )
The trucks went to the same landfill the county always used on Cate road...
...and dumped the carefully, painfully separated trash...
...in the same, single borrow pit they had always used.
Every Commissioner lost their seat in the next election.
And a follow up that covers environmentalism more broadly then just recycling
later read bump
BTTT
I get the gist of the article, but I’m not clicking on links to the Grey Whore, among others, anymore.
My favorite bumpersticker of all time has to be “Reduce, Reuse, Retarded”.
There’s an excellent book on the topic of Garbage:
http://www.amazon.com/Rubbish-Archaeology-Garbage-William-Rathje/dp/0816521433
I’ve met Dr. Rathje on a few occasions, and have had some fascinating discussions about trash. This guy knows his trash. As you might guess there are a great many myths, and all too often those myths are used to guide policy in the wrong direction.
btt
The story explains why they might.
As a former newspaper editor, I can attest to the rise in paper costs being a HUGE reason for the downfall of newspapers (beyond the reduced literacy of the American public).
thanks neverdem (quite a combo!):
Dems Target Private Retirement Accounts
Carolina Journal Online | November 04, 2008 | Karen McMahan
Posted on 11/18/2008 4:45:37 PM PST by Clintonfatigued
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2134324/posts
Many doctors plan to quit or cut back: survey
Reuters | Nov. 18, 2008 | Reporting by Maggie Fox; editing by Chris Wilson
Posted on 11/18/2008 1:18:58 PM PST by socialismisinsidious
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2134156/posts
Obama discriminates – against gun owners (some interesting conclusions!)
WorldNetDaily | November 18, 2008 | Brad O’Leary
Posted on 11/18/2008 6:31:59 PM PST by neverdem
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2134409/posts
Shhhhh, I don’t recycle. I refuse to be a slave to my refuse.
Penn & Teller did a good episode on Bullsh!t about recycling.