"I recycle, therefore I'm a bad Christian?"
No, just misinformed and silly.
"No, just misinformed and silly."
I wasn't actually asking you this question but thanks so much for your response.
No where on this thread did I say that I am a proponant of mandatory recycling programs. I'm not. I think they are a terrible idea.
Nowhere on this thread did I say that folks who want to live on a reclaimed waste site shouldn't be allowed to. I said I would not live on one.
As for reclaimed sites being used for parks, I can only speak from my own silly and misinformed experience. About 15 years ago I went sledding on what had been a dump site. BCFI, a waste management company, had turned one of their fills into what you may describe as a park. The stench--even in the dead of a Michigan winter--was unbearable. I grew up around livestock. The smell of a several dozen cows grazing on even a few acres doesn't compare with the smell of a dump site. Dumpsites smell like several dozen cows crammed into a windowless bathroom after having eaten beans for dinner. The snow that covered that particular landfill-turned-sledrun had completely melted within days, whereas two other sledruns in the same community remained covered with snow for weeks after. Why do you suppose that is? It couldn't possibly have been from the amount of heat being generated underground, could it?
No, of course not. That would be a silly and misinformed conclusion.