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Well, if my Township-preferred provider of services would not charge me about $15/mo to recycle, I would be inclined to stop throwing away the small amount of recyclables in the trash (trash is about $7/mo).
Is all about economics and common sense, neither of which the gooberment understands.
“Holding all of America’s garbage for the next one hundred years would require a space only 255 feet high or deep and 10 miles on a side”....
Can I be the first to suggest Washington, DC? We’ll still be able to see more than half the Washington Monument. Actually it will make a good measuring stick too.
One of my best friends here in MD sends his kids to private school, because public schools here indoctrinate kids in global warming, recycling and socialism(woship of government).
except for cans...which we dutifully take to someone that will pay us...
I feel better about doing something other than just throwing things in the garbage...
to recylce, we have to have several differant cans in the garage for glass,newspaper,tin cans etc...it can get messy...
then we have to load it all up and take it over to the recyling center..about 10 miles round trip.....
now we could just throw it in the garbage..we'd need to have more garbage cans....
its 6 of 1, half dozen of the other....
I set my garbage out at the curb every Wednesday morning and it gets picked up, they don’t care what’s in it except, no leaves and no tires. What they do with it, I don’t care. My little village allows leaf burning and when I buy new tires the store charges me a couple dollars to dispose of the old ones
$50 every three months for garbage pick up.
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On #s 2&3...
Puting Cans {presorted} at the curb INVITES theft. Folks TOO LAZY to dumpster dive, or walk the roadsides WILL often arrive B4 the recycle truck. They grab the aluminium and anything that would have required a deposit in an adjoining State.
Law Enforcement can’t stop it, nor does it try to.
All the people in the world (6 billion or so) could be put in Texas. The density (~25K/square mile) would be about 1/3 of the density of New York City (~75K/square mile).
Paper mills using the whole tree tend to be energy self sufficient. Waste becomes fuel for the boilers which produce steam for the plant and for generation of electrical power.
A mill relying on recycle material must buy its energy like the rest of us.
Bump.
The high priests of Gaia collect offerings of trash, because Gaia demands garbage sacrifices from her worshipers. What a dead-end cult. Well, at least in some places curbside services are offered.
I saw “Recycling” and “Trash” and thought this was a Huckabee hater thread.
The article omits a significant point. Paper makers use trees, and they know they need trees to make paper. So they farm trees. If the demand for virgin products declines, they don’t need the trees. And if they don’t need the trees, there’s incentive to sell the tree farms, or at least, stop managing them.
If the tree farm is sold, it goes to suburban development. No more trees. Oops.
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I never recycle.
Penn and Teller did and expose on the very same subject.
It takes more energy to recycle most products, than it does to than it does to dump them in a landfill and go grow or make new ones.
Many become upset with me when I dare to venture the opinion that perhaps accepting trash from Canada (I mean, aside from the present Governor) could be a money-making / jobs-creating idea. I'm not wrong; I am a fledgling Austrian economics thinker.
The author forgot the fourth question; By what right does the government force people to recycle?
Interesting. I personally don’t mind recycling when it is convenient and voluntary. If I finish a drink in a can or bottle and there’s a recycle bin next to a trash can I’ll drop it in the appropriate container.
I do resent being told that I have to recycle for the “good of the planet” or some other reason.
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