A left feel good policy, they throw it all together, they really think there are little elves sorting all this stuff out?
It is another conformity exercise by the Democrats. The left is just training the country for the next Holocaust.
Though I don’t know the exact numbers, the law of physics means recycling has to be a scam. Imagine a 90 lb bin of rain-soaked newspaper, cardboard, and glossy ads picked up in door-to-door stops by a 40 ton truck delivered to a processing site 15 miles away. The only product capable of compensating for the fuel and labor cost must be a metal or rare earth (I’m exaggerating a little). Think of the BTUs needed to dry cellulose assuming the garbage put roadside is even a reusable paper product?
Sure, some items might generate a net balance if recycled efficiently and conscientiously. But the only way most fake greenies will comply is curbside pickup, the most inefficient of all.
Decades before global warming the criminal lefties saw recycling as the way to generate bullshit work, taxes, and forced compliance over a population.
Actually there are folks sorting it out. Some plastic is economically viable to rescycle.. milk cartons, laundry detergent containers etc. but most plastics are not economically ciable to recycle the process to recycle them is too complex of the the cost too high.
Most single use plastic will never be recycled, the cost of using new material is so cheap and the efficiencies in the manufacturing process make most single use plastics unprrofitable.. it would cost more to use recycled materials than a new.
So the next time you throw your soda bottle or water bottle or margarine tub into the recycling bin, realize it’s most likely going to wind up buried in a landfill or burned, if it doesn’t wind up shipped to some third world country where it will just wind up dumped in a remote area or into a lake or river.
Plastic recycling is largely a scam. If you actually look at the numbers your recycling pickup wants, and only put those in your recycling bin you’ll be surprised how little is truly recycled. But like most people we don’t look at the numbers just toss it in the recycling bin and assume it will be recycled.