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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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They finally took away the blue bins in my area....very few were recycling plus pick up was an issue.
Recycling for the most part is a scam to teach people to allow bureaucrats to control them. Many people who recycle have false pride which apparently gives them false satisfaction
and meaning. How vacuous and pathetic.
Exactly. There are some making money from it at the expense of those not being compensated for recycling.
Not only not being compensated, but being forced to use their own labor and other resources.
The problems with paying for compliance: whose money is used for that and how could the money be better spent?
When I was stationed in Germany in the 90’s we were in forced recycling. Yellow bags for cans, blue bags for compost, and God help you if you accidently dropped a can in a bag or bin it shouldn’t have been in. Then the media did an undercover video and watched the yellow bags get collected and trucked to a barge in Hamberg, then towed to Africa for landfill. It’s all a scam.
EXACTLY
It’s very interesting seeing how easily people can be swayed - I’ve noticed liberal minded people tend to follow whatever is trending to be part of and accepted by their in crowd, their collective or part of the pack - where as Conservatives are individual thinkers who tend being cautious and not quick to jump on the band wagon.
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