The amount of energy recycling seems enormous compared to the plastic saved.
I mean just a gallon of gas spent driving to the recycling center is far more then the $0.0002 cents worth of plastic recycled.
I am all for separating it into different colored bags and then letting the sorting be done at collection centers (Welfare people need jobs) But the minimal amount of energy spent should be all that is done.
Exactly. Penn and Teller also pointed out that creating papter from trees is a simple and pretty environmentally friendly endeavor. And we grow the trees now like we grow corn.
Recycling paper involves all sorts of chemical processes to remove ink, dyes, etc. It makes no sense and is more harmful than just starting from scratch.
Like Jay Lenno sez about Doritos, “[Use] all you want. We’ll make more.”