Posted on 07/04/2024 9:16:05 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Despite multiple awareness campaigns and recycling programmes, it seems that not many are taking recycling seriously, says Singapore University of Social Sciences’ Victor Seah.
(Singapore) Drinking water from a bottle made from recycled plastic recently made me feel unjustifiably righteous for a moment, until I realised that despite being recycled, it was still plastic and likely less virtuous than those new paper-like packets. Thankfully, my holier-than-thou moment was restored after I deposited the plastic bottle into a recycling bin.
It feels good to recycle. Research has found a positive link between recycling and self-reported well-being and life satisfaction. Knowing that the bottle I had used was made from other plastic bottles and was now on a journey to (presumably) become yet another plastic bottle felt good to me - never mind the fact that we should be avoiding disposable plastic bottles in the first place.
However, recycling isn't always that straightforward. One only needs to look at the contents of the blue recycling bins scattered across Singapore’s housing estates to wonder: “What’s the point”.
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Yep.
Yeah - the small particles in the water may be a problem, I’m not sure how much study has gone into it.
On the other hand, plastics do a lot of good too. Safer cars, safer electrical, etc. I don’t recall now, but the amount of food that doesn’t go to waste now due to plastic containers (and the use of cargo containers) is huge.
Lots of water pollution from plastics via the water cycle. The plastics accumulate in aquatic life and up the food chain.
Lots of air pollution (tires) which deposits onto agricultural land.
I’m amazed how many intentional micro-plastics (beads) go into cosmetics and soaps and also how much synthetic fiber clothing breaks down in a washing machine cycle.
Precisely. Just last week, I threw out a glass empty peanut-butter jar. I used to go to the trouble of cleaning it; and then, putting it into the recycle bin. Not doing that anymore. They aren't recycling. So why should I bother?
Lol… “Recycling makes people feel good”.
I have no problem, throwing some plastic bottles, paper, aluminum cans or what not in the blue bin and putting it out to the curb once a week. What does it make me feel good, and really pisses me off, is standing in line at the grocery store feeding used cans into a machine to get my stupid dime back. If I have curbside recycling, I get pissed off at the state extorting money from me. so I get to wait behind five other people and some homeless guy with a shopping cart full of bottles at the grocery store.
A joint of bamboo in the palm of the hand is a Japanese street weapon, called a “kashi no bo”. Devastating at close quarters, and not visible on metal detectors. Nobody even realizes it’s a weapon, or present on your person, until you are forced to use it. It can be adapted as a key chain to negate all suspicion.
Perfect for the environ-mental-case fascist who gets in your face. Very instructive in a Beaver Cleaver sort of way. “Let this be a lesson to you, young they.”
They prove it all of the time
Research has found a positive link between recycling and self-reported well-being and life satisfaction.
What ridiculous nonsense.
You can insert just about any activity for “recycling”...like, say, “crapping”.
Just another scam instituted by TPTB to keep us busy while they rape this country.
All the trash winds up at the exact same destination, joined together through eternity.
We used to do something like that at at our local food coop.
Miss it.
be smug: recycle
About 5% of everything that is sent in for recycle is actually recycled.
Bingo.. we use our big city recycling bin for weeds now. Just read about plastics getting into our bodies too. Plan on reusing glass bottles to store extra water.
Reading this article inspired me to go out back and burn some old tires.
Why not use carrots instead of sticks? Paid voluntary compliance is better than unpaid forced compliance.
I flat out refuse to play the silly recycling game. We have a city provided blue wheeled recycling bin. It gets used in the fall. It’s huge and holds lots of leaves. Otherwise it resides behind my shed.
Recycling is a colossal waste of time and money. I refuse to pay for water and sewage to rinse out and pre-clean my garbage.
I simply throw it away.
If recycling made economic sense, there would be people bidding for my garbage.
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