Posted on 02/04/2020 8:29:21 AM PST by karpov
“Seven years and no one leaked out the news?”
They probably hired anyone who noticed.
Looks like a pretext to cap [rimshot!] single-stream recycling.
Our Scout troop used to do paper drives back in the early 60’s - my brother and I knocked on one door and a naked woman answered. When we later told the adults, one of them wanted to know her address.
Or image is more important than action.
But that's true of just about every liberal program.
We only recycle cardboard and electronics
However there are 7 or 8 recycle streams at the dump.
they all go to the burner though.
It is a ritual, like crossing oneself
Same in Houston. There was an uproar when the City’s recycling trucks were caught dumping cardboard in with the other trash.
The truth is that other than scrap steel and perhaps a couple other materials, recycling has almost never been cost effective. Paper and glass in particular: we grow plenty of trees in farms to make all the paper we need, and glass is made of the most abundant element in the Earth’s crust. Now that the Chinese aren’t buying any of it, it makes even less sense.
My wife makes sure that nothing but the cleanest trash goes out.
True believer in recycling.
“Virtue signal uber alles.”
So well put! Thank you.
I’ve been single streaming my stuff for years. One wheelie bin for all.
Our convenience center guy told us this years ago. That was the day I quit separating things for recycling. It all goes in the trash now.
Our town has had us scrupulously dividing paper, plastics, metal and regular garbage for 10 years now.
Last year, I missed a pick-up of some larger amount of “recyclable material,” and I called the trash company that has our town’s contract to ask how to handle it.
They guy said to me: Oh, don’t worry about it, just put it out. We just burn it all together anyway.
It’s a liberal scam ... makes all the idiots feel like they’re saving ‘motha earf’...
It is not a ritual but a religion like global warming.
I wonder what they’re doing in Michigan?
When I lived there we had to pay at 10 cent deposit on every beverage can AND bottle. You had to return them to grocery stores to get your deposit back.
And apparently Federal regs have done away with refillable bottles. So the grocery stores have to dispose of these?
Glass is innocuous. It is just silicone the 4th most abundant substance n Earth. It does not save energy to recycle it. It can just be crushed and dumped in the ocean with no adverse environmental impact.
There are things that need to be recycled, glass isn’t one of them.
Recycling for glass shows the environmental movement is full of idiots
Aluminum is very easy to recycle. At times it can pay a lot of money to collect and crush.
Carboard is now the largest volume item in the trash. Carboard volume is about twice of all others: glass, aluminum, mixed papers, steel/tin, plastics. Cardboard is also very easy to recycle into more carboard. Maybe Amazon should be forced to recycle it if they are not already.
The problem is with the plastics other than # 1 & #2 PEET and PVC. Nobody wants the other plastics. Yet our supermarkets and other stores are full of plastic containers and packaging.
We need to go back to more waxed carboard cartons. We are not running out of trees.
That is not necessarily true. It depends on your trucking cost to get the material to someone who will take it.
Steel, aluminum and carboard are all purchased by companies that recycle it.
For example, there is a Anheuser Bush container recovery plant here in NH that takes in truckloads all day long of aluminum cans. They pay money for them.
I do business with a recycling company in the Boise valley.
They haul crushed cars and crushed tin/steel cans over to a steel mill south of Portland, OR that makes rebar.
Other trucking companies haul baled cardboard to a paper/cardboard mills in Longview, WA and Springfield, OR.
They get loads every week from the city of Boise and other municipalities. They recycle the old cardboard and make new cardboard and brown paper bags.
So, there may not be a place near Houston that takes cardboard. So, it costs more to truck it to some paper mill that will.
Landfill space is limited in many parts of the US now. That may not be the case in Texas.
When you get the real answer as to why they didn’t recycle glass for the last 7 years, you’ll be scratching a false (green) surface exposung the TRUTH beneath.
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