They insist.
Is it time to use stick and stones to tell Nannystatists to MYOB?
So they can mix it all back together with the regular trash at the dump.
Basically, 99% of nonrecyclers live in Asia and Africa.
They insist.
Get a real job.
As to paper, we shred and compost as much of it as we can and use cardboard in the winter to slow down the burn in the woodstove. I just hate paying for trucking and sorting that sort of material.
Just this week, I watched the trash truck pick up my green can full of leaves and then pick up my black can full of garbage, dumping it all in the same truck load. He moved to the next house and did the same thing. Is he colorblind? Why am I wasting my time separating everything? Right now I am in a tinderbox where the temp was over 100F today, fireworks are illegal and are a $1000 per item fine, and we pay for a safe public display to try to stop the stupid & evil from using illegal ones. The stupid & evil are letting loose right now. A firecracker hit my roof not long ago, I hope my house doesn’t catch on fire. The police and fire cannot cope with all the calls on Evil Day, usually putting out 100s of spot fires in the county.
Everyone needs to stop lecturing ME. JSTFU liberals - you are the lawless ones.
“Research has found a positive link between recycling and self-reported well-being and life satisfaction.”
I still remember some bitch, looked like a librarian, who threw something plastic into a recycle bin and had that librarian-like smug look on her face after doing so - as if the planet was going to be saved by having it sent to Sri Lanka or wherever those barges now go and being burned for electricity.
Apartment dwellers can't compost, unfortunately, unless the apartment has a compost heap to which you can contribute material.
For me, it's one small trash bag of garbage a week, and the garbage service sorts out what it can into the various recycle streams.
From a recent ‘Quillette’ article titled “Recycling Plastics is a Dangerous Waste of Time”: “The sad truth is that, unlike paper, glass, and metal recycling, the science underpinning plastic recycling has always been, at best, questionable. From the beginning, the industry’s own chemists repeatedly told them it wouldn’t work. Most types of plastic can’t be recycled at all, and the ones that can become more toxic during the process. “The reality is that plastics can only be recycled—or more accurately ‘downcycled’—once, rarely twice,” the white paper concludes. It then becomes trash just like virgin plastic. Recycling merely delays its journey to a landfill or worse.”
The article focuses on the processing of plastics at recycling plants, which generates enormous amounts of micro plastic particles, which (of course) the enviro’s are extremely bothered by as well.
My sticks and prunings go into the yard waste bin.
Victor Seah can feel good all he wants about being a Master Recycler. In fact, he can recycle a plastic bottle for me.
Sanctimonious are us.
Funny thing about the Amazon Jungle.
It has been described as the “Lungs of the Earth” due to production of Oxygen due to photosynthesis. It is not, the lungs of the earth are the algae in the oceans that produce most of our oxygen and when they die conveniently sink to the bottom of the ocean and become a carbonate trap for CO2. The vast majority of the Amazon jungle becomes termite food which transforms into termite farts of methane CH4 which is a more potent global warming gas than CO2 but in the atmosphere becomes CO2. CO2 is plant food. There is a reason greenhouse growers of vegetables pump CO2 into their greenhouses, it is plant food. How do they produce this C02? They burn fossil fuels. The only contribution the Amazon Jungle does for reducing CO2 in the atmosphere is the organic matter that it puts into the ocean and is buried in sediments.
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.
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.
be smug: recycle
About 5% of everything that is sent in for recycle is actually recycled.