I seem to recall one of the Scandinavian countries admitting that they did not see any good in it.
I had read many stories of how recycling was piling up at waste centers because it was to expensive to haul, and the economy had slowed down.
But I cannot find links to show my leftist friend who believes all the fairy tales the leftist have to tell.
My google searches come up nil, so I would expect they are manipulated...or not. Thanks fellow Freepers!
How’s about “Americans not working”
Interesting thread. Hoping you get some links.
Recycling works, with a huge subsidy from the government. Guess it depends on what your definition of works is?
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http://www.triplepundit.com/2011/11/curbside-recycling-preventing-market-failure/
Article from Nov. 2011 with good statistics. Top of article is good, bottom is about San Francisco which has a pay as you throw deal—expensive—to acheive their recycling rate.
Another article from April, 2012—about the failure of the recycling effort in St. Petersburg, FL.
Here’s another one from today—fasilure in Chicago:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/09/chicago-recycling-fail-1_n_641087.html
Here is one from a few years ago I remembered; recycling going right to the landfill.
Gubbament ‘recycling” programs fail because if there is a amrket for the recyclable material, it is already being recycled. People doing that are easily found in the Yellow Pages under “Scrap dDalers” or the more Libtard “Recyclers”.
In recycling, as in other areas, letting gubbament do anything guarantees higher costs, lower efficiencies and sooner or later, “a swarm of officers to eat out our substance”.
Yeah, the last IS from the Declaratoin. Seems the spirit of King George is stalking America’s streets.
I typed “recycling doesn’t work” into Google and found hundreds of things. Why not try that?
Retirement comes to mind.
When I lived in Japan, I had to carefully separate my trash into: burnable, plastic, glass, buried, and food leftovers.
Except in one city.
Kyoto.
Generally, if something is worth doing, somebody will already be doing it, because they can make a living at it, e.g. it is profitable. It’s not really more complicated than that.
Glass is recyclable, paper, or pulp can be, and “rag men” used to dot the cities. The problem arises when more energy inputs are utilized to subsidize government mandated “feel good” programs that consume more resources than are returned. Taking the other side of the argument, what is the “carbon footprint” of a mandatory recycling program where huge sums of money are spent in a futile effort to pick up crap that nobody wants, unless they can make money at it.
Garbage is profitable, if government (people who don’t actually want to work) stay out of the way. Seriously. Newspaper has a value, but once it’s required to recycle, at a cost, the there is no incentive. Textbook 101.
Why humans constantly have to re- discover truths laid out 6,000 years ago is one of those imponderables.
NY Times no less
John Stossel did a show on that subject a while back. May find it at his site or u-tube.