[Way2Serious]

Recycling is just another form of waste disposal, AFAIC, its politically neutral. What should anyone care if their trash goes to the dump or the recycling center? And if it saves a municipality a few bucks on their annual landfill costs, what's the problemo? I can't think of a sillier thing to have a crap hemorrhage over.

[ElkGroveDan]

Recycling is just another form of waste disposal, AFAIC, its politically neutral. What should anyone care if their trash goes to the dump or the recycling center? And if it saves a municipality a few bucks on their annual landfill costs, what's the problemo? I can't think of a sillier thing to have a crap hemorrhage over.

No one is havin a hemorrage. That's the point I'm making it as simple as possible. I'm certainly not going to dig through trash and rinse out milk containers and all of that if I have no incentive. Since recycling does not do what it purports that's actually a dis-incentive.

Its quite simple, really. The bumper sticker is for the same reason you put one on your car. (and there are two on my car).

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[Gophack]

And if it saves a municipality a few bucks on their annual landfill costs, what's the problemo?

I would agree with you IF recycling saved us OR government money. On the contrary, we subsidize recycling! Yes, we are brainwashed into thinking that mother earth (or gaia or whatever) is dying and we have to recycle to save the planet. BUT recycling costs more than making most products new. No reputable free market businessman would touch it. Soooooo the Leftists give recyclers our money to recycle.

There is no profit, but major losses, in recycling without government subsidies. Just remember that when they start to MANDATE sorting your garbage.