"If I send a nasty something to the recyling box at the office supply store it gets on a truck and/or train to the nearest port. Goes on a container ship to China. Gets on a truck/train where it ends up in some village where the kids wearing flip flops and maybe a rag over their nose burn the plastics and casings off to get to the useful parts. Discarding the bits and pieces behind their shack and the into the contaminated ditch."
I saw Charlton Heston in Soilent Green about a month ago. I saw Wally last week. We're just about there... God help us.
The sad part is if they would let us drill, mine, build garbage dumps here in the USA, Mother Earth would be a whole lot better off. I’ve been to a few of those places overseas and it is unreal on how the people and the environment gets screwed. If we could relax some of our controls over business (rather than keep pushing new and more outrageous controls on them) - we could become a major producer of things once again. Rather than just a bunch of service providers or guys that push file folders and money around.