Posted on 10/19/2015 6:40:24 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
Liberalism is an IQ test. The smug people are the dumb people.
I have to wash the garbage I put in the recycling bin so we don’t have flies in the garage.
My parents never washed the garbage. I know this because I used to empty the wastebaskets every day and take the garbage out every week.
The same with “climate change,” it’s a religion and will make us poorer and lead to tyranny.
recycling is energy costing. It costs more to make products from recycled stuff than from original. It’s an energy waster. But heck, it helps global warming or saves the rats or something.
My daughters ask me why we don’t recycle. I told them there is no money in it. If there was, someone would pay me to recycle.
I will ALWAYS compost veggie scraps and garden waste and will burn what I can - but I might not always ‘recycle’ as I should. I will crush cans and save aluminum for cash, but it’s not an obsession by any means.
However, he makes a good point that those stuck in Liberal Cities or, ‘In Town’ as we call them, have to have a place to keep their recyclables until pick-up day which can be messy and stinky in the heat of summer.
I live in the boonies and have NEVER had a problem getting rid of anything; I haul it to the ‘curb’ and it’s gone in sixty seconds. ;)
I ‘release’ it back into The Universe and if someone else wants to profit from it, so much the better. :)
Recycling, like windmills, is a racket!
Boy is that right. Nail on head.
Aluminum makes sense to recycle
Glass and non-aluminum is borderline
Paper and plastic are not worth it except as some feel good exercise
Yes, but it makes you feel virtuous.
What is the skinny on bottle recycling? Some states still have deposits on pop and beer bottles, most do not as they are recycled. Since deposits on bottles were a part of my youth, I always figured it must be worth something. I was 11 years old a working in the back of a grocery store putting bottles in cases for $.10 per. Is it a waste of resources?
NYT Magazine ran an article 20 years ago or so explaining how recycling requires more energy than using raw materials offsetting any environmental advantage. Also, that the lower grade recyclables (the number on the recycle triangle) are just dumped as they are not really recyclable or worth recycling. It is all a sham to get us in lock step.
I throw everything in the same bin...let them sort it out. I got better things to do with my time.
I recycle my aluminum [beer cans] and rinse out my cans, etc., so ye garbage doesn’t stink. And everything that would raise a stink gets chopped up and flushed. Works for me! I’m lazy...
However here in Thailand there is money in it. Plastic bottles, cardboard, cans, glass bottles, metal, etc. Are all not only accepted at recycle centers, but money paid. We have scavengers (poor Thais) that check our trash daily.
We have a snack store where we get a lot of those recycles. The mother in law controls it for us, when she exchanges she normally gets about 300 Baht ($10), that’s a day’s wage here.
High labor costs make recycling uneconomical.
Here Here Diana Can I Get An Amen!!!!
Here in Calif. they outlawed plastic bags for groceries and urged everyone to use the cloth bags to “save the environment.” We know a guy who works in a landfill and guess what. People are throwing away the cloth bags — which take up far more space in the landfill and much longer to deteriorate than the plastics.
Environmentalism is stuck in the 1960s.
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