Posted on 04/12/2019 1:35:50 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
If you haven’t heard – and you probably haven’t – Washington Governor Jay Inslee is running for president.
Additionally, he’s making environmentalism his signature issue. He thinks that embracing the eco-left is his ticket to the presidency, and he hopes he can become the “First Climate President.”
Despite his apparent green credentials, Inslee was apparently dumbfounded at one of the most basic questions you can ask an environmentalist – how to recycle.
During a CNN town hall this week, Inslee was asked how he’d improve the recycling system. As CNN explains, it was a “curious” moment for the candidate “whose campaign is almost entirely focused on climate change… he didn’t know enough about the recycling system to say how he would change it.”
“I thought I had the answers to every question and I don’t have (an) answer to that,” said a struggling Inslee. Even CNN was forced to admit that “at no point did Inslee actually answer the question.”
(Excerpt) Read more at powerthefuture.com ...
“Climate Change” is undefined and not measurable. It is a front for taking your life style. It has been impregnated in our schools like a religion. It should be removed from our schools because it is without ANY foundation. No body will tell you what it is. You just believe or you will be tortured and murdered.
Nuts and fruits.
Wow. Dumber than an ocassio.
I’ll answer it.
Stop making us recycle everything except aluminum cans. Because recycling anything else is a pure money loser.
Recycling metals in general and paper/cardboard makes sense.
Those were recycled before it was “cool”.
Just burn everything in high temperature furnaces and use the energy given off to power something.
And he’s our governor - >drat<
instead of welfare, hire people to sort through the trash... recycle what can... burn the rest for energy.
“Not much of a seasoned politician.”
And yet, he has been in political office for most of his adult life! CNN viewers just got to see what all of us here in Washington have known for decades...Inslee is dumb as a post and only knows how to spew talking points, with no actual understanding of what he is even saying.
There is a reason that he has avoided debates in most of his races - he is unable to even explain his own positions and has no ability to field questions if someone on his staff has not written out the answers ahead of time!
Whatever you do..don’t fart.
“Inslee was apparently dumbfounded at one of the most basic questions you can ask an environmentalist – how to recycle.”
Well if you have cycled once its easy. They say you never forget how to ride.
With the excess recycled material, burn them now or burn them later when they turn into the organic matter we burn today.
Yep. China quit taking our recycled material because, 1. It was cross-contaminated with other crap and, 2. It's cheaper to use raw materials to make stuff.
“I’m glad you asked that question ... glad you asked it, yes, I’m glad it was asked. This, in my opinion is one of those key questions that doesn’t get asked enough. Because recycling is one of those areas where too often the rhetoric doesn’t match the results, particularly with the current administration, who, as you well know, have pledged to destroy the earth and every living thing that inhabits it. Now, I have always underscored the importance of recycling, and if I’m elected I promise that the very first thing I do, on my very first day in office, will be to ensure that recycling is the number one issue addressed by my administration. Well ... maybe we’ll do butthumping first, but believe me, recycling will be right up there! We WILL recycle. Not because it’s trendy; not because it’s popular, but because it’s the right thing to do. More questions?”
He obviosuly then does not even know that residential collections for recycling is done so much and so successfully in most U.S. states now that that success has become a problem due to the basic laws of supply and demand.
To get recycled, the collected material usually has to be sold (by the local recycling collector) to either a third party dealer/distributor that sells material for recycling to companies that take the material, break it down and create new materials to be used in making products from recycled goods, or directly to such companies.
But the end and the middle of that product chain are balking at taking in more materials as fast as materials are being collected, because the supplies they already have are already more than they can use, sometimes for weeks, months or in some cases years. This was already actually an unacknowldged U.S. condition, when China was buying so much of the stuff. Now China has more than enough materials for recycling from its own consumers, and has been refusing new supplies from the U.S.
So the local contractors who collect materials for recycling are being hit with lower prices they will get for the stuff, and the same is true for the mid level distributors. End users are either offering less money for, or from time to time refusing, some or all the goods others want to sell to them. One could say it is sort of like too much of a good thing.
Consequently, some local contractors that make the residential collections are more frequently finding THEIR best financial choice is to take it to the landfill.
You have to arealize just how uninformed the governor of Washington state is on this issue, even on recycling matters in his own state.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/Washington-counties-could-stop-recycling-some-plastic
The other clowns, to lesson the competition, ought to kick the governor of Washington state out of the clown car. I think he is dead weight.
Ever thought about running for office as a democrat? I think you could do well.
computers too.
We have a recycling transfer station in our town.
It is so cute.
All the earnest leftists come and have their separated trash go into different containers. Different plastics, glass, newspapers....
Little do the know that except for metals, cardboard and computers everything else gets hauled to the burner.
Inslee is an angry little man who likely has Daddy Issues. I’ve seen it before.
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