Proving once again that there is a Seinfeld episode that covers any discussion, anywhere! :)
I remember talking to my trash guy on recycling.
They lose money on all recycling except aluminum cans
I was living in Garland Maine just outside of Dexter Maine (once home to the shoe company of the same name) and we would BRING our separated items and then throw them into the shipping bins that held that certain recyclable . Their was also a dumpster for everything else that was not cash friendly to go to a landfill . It worked well enough that we were able to hire two people to monitor the proceedings on the weekends and the town made a profit by selling at the right time for however the markets went . This was small scale mind you but it worked . The best way to address the situation is go back to older ways of packaging ....I still seek out say...milk in paper/wax half gallons or if available have a milk man deliver in glass...I am not a tree hugger by any chance but just stating that I have seen it work on a small scale . Once the hacks and thieves get their hands on it I expect it to be corrupted and pillaged..The only way to fix that is jail the politicians and strip what wealth which we can prove they obtained...very simple if all the participants weren’t all sucking from the same teat as it currently is .
I read an article about this many years ago. But I still continue to recycle. It’s an addiction. I really should stop. I think the only thing really worth recycling are electronics and metals.
Penn and Teller did a show about recycling a few years ago. Warning: Language for the language sensitive:
This was apparent to a casual observer many years ago. The labor and real estate involved in collecting and separating and storing just seemed disproportionate. Any government (or private) program that is not costed to include at least once removed side benefits and detriments, and a full program life cycle, must be suspect.
Everything that originated in the late ‘60s and ‘70s to placate rioting hippies is a complete fraud.
Proving once again that there is a Seinfeld episode that covers any discussion, anywhere! :)
So funny. We have a small museum in southern Utah where we hold major art events every year. Course everybody has to have their water bottles as they don’t know where water comes from. And they always ask where the recycle bins are.
This is my best of all time answers. “We put all the garbage together so the boy scouts and their leaders can go down to the dump for a service project to separate them all out every week. Isn’t it wonderful for these young men?”
Oh, the approving wonderment from the libs!
If *I* ran the world, everyone would be worrying less about recycling glass and paper and aluminum and spending more time putting food scraps and yard waste (grass clippings, leaves, etc.) into their compost piles!
Black Gold, Baby! Black. Gold. :)
We have mandatory recycling. I keep aluminum cans and we crunch them down, put the full bags in the barn, and when we’re taking scrap metal or iron or steel or old appliances to the Scrap Yard we throw them in, too. May as well beat the system where you can!
I never wash out anything. I know they’re not really ‘recycling’ my peanut butter jar or what have you...
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It was always a scam. You’re giving away material that someone else is making a profit off of.
While not perfect, price is the most honest measure of greenness available. In a free market, price tracks closely to the total energy consumption involved. If something costs you more money, it is almost certainly less green.
But recycling is good for one thing: practice for wartime shortages. Tell libtards they need to sort their trash to support America's military. Suddenly they will notice the higher price.
I’ve worked in construction year ago and knew then recycling was a total scam as well as a waste of time. Guys on garbage trucks used to say to me “The sh!t all winds up in the same place!’’
“The New York Times recently reported that, unknown to most families who spend hours separating garbage into little recycling bins, much of the stuff ends up in a landfill anyway.”
I really don’t see this as a problem as sometime in the near future when we’ve figured out how to REALLY recycle things, old landfills will become a hotter commodity than a gold or diamond mine.
When I was a kid we took our empty soda bottles back to the store to get money for candy and stuff. We would scour the roadside ditches for soda bottles. No deposit no return plastic bottles and cans ruined it.
I avidly try not to buy food or anything in plastic, but its becoming very difficult. I wish I could just buy glass, paper or metal... the mountains of plastic is a trash nightmare.
We still have a blue bin for recycling and a black bin for everything else, but years ago the town fathers said put whatever you want in whichever bin you want - except the Recycling Authority says don’t put plastic bags in their bins because it clogs their machines, and don’t put pizza boxes in their bins because it gets their machines all greasy, and don’t put old garden hoses in their bins because they get tangled in their machines - so I always put pizza boxes and old garden hoses, and especially plastic bags in the recycling bin.....
Easy as just most lanfills “Deposit” recycling with the trash. I see them every day going in but no recycling going out.
Self Ping.