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Activists call recycling trash waste of time [Environmentalists call recycling "a complete failure"]
National Post ^
| March 03, 2003
| Michael Friscolanti
Posted on 03/04/2003 7:16:56 AM PST by ZGuy
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To: The Great RJ
The best thing about recycling around here is that the courts make criminals do their "community service" sorting the stuff in the orange recycling bags. I'll toss some cans or bottles in the bag sometimes just to give the thugs something to do.
To: Brad Cloven
All those ships from China don't go back empty after supplying Walmart ya know! They haul our garbage.
BTW, since I have a farm....I shred my junk-mail and paper waste into animal bedding which is later composted after enough manure is added. I cut my own meats. I collect my own eggs. We have an outdoor toilet(seasonally permitted). I found the best shower we have is the one we use on livestock(this was after an unfortunate skunking episode). We drain grey water into the garden. We put up our own canned goods in glass jars. Even construction debris like old plaster and drywall gets crushed and spread on the fields. Chickens and goats will provide you eggs and milk merely by eating what you throw away.
Recycling is for those chained to an urban environment and feel bad about it.
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posted on
03/04/2003 8:20:01 AM PST
by
blackdog
("But that's what I do" A quote from my Border Collie)
To: cajungirl
It's about control, not sanitation.
To: ZGuy
Don't cha love it when enviromentalists eat their own?
To: blackdog
**Recycling is for those chained to an urban environment and feel bad about it. **
Hardly.
I commend you for doing your part to recycle. You're fortunate to have land and animals to use up recyclable material. Those who don't live in the country can do their part as well. The success varies with the area. Our area has great success in recycling.
To: cajungirl
I quit recycling when I learned it only saves 1/4 of 1% of landfill space per year...that's 0.25%. Not worth all the trouble and cost to participate, at least in my view.
To: homeschool mama
Post consumer content does not come from household garbage. That is full of stickies and other nasties that those versed in paper industry know of. The post consumer content is from corrugated bales produced by industry, grocery stores and such. And yes, as I said...Aluminum cans are valuable and recycled. Sure we sort it all, but most goes to the landfill.
That darn recycled content toilet paper ain't selling so well either. That's why Charmin, Kimberly Clarke and such import all that eucalyptus pulp for their tissue mills here in Wisconsin. They cut down rainforests and have the pulp sent here on ships.
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posted on
03/04/2003 8:29:12 AM PST
by
blackdog
("But that's what I do" A quote from my Border Collie)
To: IrishRainy
If more communities recycled, that number would increase significantly. There are plenty of areas that have a recycling program in place but the commitment of all is needed to make a significant difference. imho.
To: blackdog; Fidgit
pinging fidgit to repond to blackdogs post 47.
To: homeschool mama
Good Morning. Seems we have a lot of opinion backed up by very little fact going on here. I guess the 2500 tons a month of sorted grades of paper and corrigated we do here is just a waste of time. We really bale it so that land fills can be filled more efficiently. I wonder what all those little specs on my toilet paper, paper bags and cardboard boxes are?
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posted on
03/04/2003 8:41:13 AM PST
by
Fidgit
(<------ who's this?)
To: blackdog
The only time I was ever stung by a wasp was when my Dad moved the out house closer to the barn. I think I prefer fouling the air inside thank you very much!
To: blackdog
In the California county I live in (Ventura) it is illegal to use gray water in your garden!!!
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posted on
03/04/2003 8:44:55 AM PST
by
ZGuy
To: ZGuy
Why?
To: homeschool mama
I tend to agree with you. I recycle everything. I throw all kinds of metal and plastic into the recycle bin. If they don't want it, they can bury it.
To: Fidgit
Hey Fidg! Glad you could drop by. ;o)
To: ZGuy
In the California county I live in (Ventura) it is illegal to use gray water in your garden!!!Well hell, that's like other things in Cal.
But everyone does it anyway.......LOL!
To: onedoug
fyi
To: Joe Hadenuf; ZGuy
Didn't Sunset Magazine recently do an article about using grey water...in, of all places, Ventura County? :o) I'll have to look that up.
To: ZGuy
NO KIDDING. They were told a decade ago it would cost more to recycle and not prove worthwhile. They were wrong but they pushed and pushed. Now we're left with another expensive program and infrastructure demanded by liberals and face the cost of dismantling their failure.
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posted on
03/04/2003 8:51:19 AM PST
by
1Old Pro
To: Sunshine Sister
They may have lumped black water and gray water together, or they may think that any water other than rainwater or treated water from the hose will have impurities that will build up and contaminate the soil over time. I guess they figure they must stop me from my desire to contaminate my own garden. [sigh]
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posted on
03/04/2003 8:51:32 AM PST
by
ZGuy
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