Need some anti-recycling bumper stickers (vanity)

June 9, 2003

[ElkGroveDan]

Here's the deal. Out in Sacramento County where I live they provide each house with three of those big plastic trash cans, a brown one for garbage, a black one for lawn clippings and a green one for recycling products.

When I first moved in they showed up with all three and I told them to take away the recycling can because I was not going to use it. Family and friends suggested that I keep it and just fill it up with regular garbage. My problem is that I refuse to place it at the end of my driveway along with all the other sheeples advertising that I don't mind participating in socialist behavior modification.

My problem now is that when I moved in there were just my wife and two daughters and I and so I got by with the trash space we had. After the third baby I went to a trash compactor for all the plastic bottles and cartons and that saved a ton of room for a while. We had another baby this year and now with 6 people in the house the volume of trash has gone up and its getting diffuclt to deal with.

My choices were to either order another brown garbage can and pay through the nose for it; (apparently this is considered bad behavior for we lab rats, and when you order another one they need to apply a severe electric shock by way of some huge monthly charge.) or to order the green can for free and just throw garbage in it.

So I finally gave in and ordered the green "recycling" trash can. To set the message straight for my neighbors and other passers bye, I want to plaster it with anti-recycling bumper stickers.

I don't think the garbage-nazis care, since no one has objected yet to the DUMP DAVIS stickers we all still have on our cans on my block.

My request to my fellow freepers is this...Where can I get some good anti-environment anti-recycling bumper stickers?

[CounterCounterCulture]

Good reply.

[Dog Gone]

[two23]

We put a few bucks under the bungie cord on the garbage bin and they WILL take ANYTHING!!! My garbage is never spilled or left on the ground.

[laredo44]

symbolic PC garbage

That's what you should put on the can.

We have a winner.

[vidbizz]

I want to know why all the cans are green, brown or blue. How about some diversity here?!? There are other colors in the spectrum...pink, mauve, periwinkle, teal, tangerine....

[Lowcountry]

Dan, I'm with you and proud of it. I've read all the research you've posted before and every time I try to tell it to people, they just look at me like I'm talking about flying saucers and space aliens. Frankly, all you people defending it are crazy to me. You must be watching Barney with your kids too much.

Recycling is being sold to us through scare tactics like welfare and social security. Plus, its even less effective than those two loser programs.

Keep telling the truth Dan!

[vidbizz]

Speaking of that...unlike real fur, all those faux furs are NOT biodegradable. Just think of the wasted space in the landfill! ;)

[jethropalerobber]

how about this:

"Crap in the well all you like - this is AMERICA!"

[KayEyeDoubleDee]

We put a few bucks under the bungie cord on the garbage bin

Now, that's what I call Capitalism!!!!

[ElkGroveDan]

Sounds to me that you're just too lazy to recycle. I mean, come on, how hard is it, to take an empty milk jug or pop can, and toss it in the green can...

Sounds to me like YOU are just too lazy to polka. How hard is it to put on old German clothing and do a dance to restore the harmonic balance to the universe once a day.

I see no reason to recycle, and you see no reason to do the polka before brushing your teeth. Does it make either of us lazy? No. Is there any scientific or economic reason to do either? No. Should you ridicule my suggestion to all of your neighbors? YES Should I ridiculre recycling to all my neighbors? YES.

End of discussion.

[Atlas Sneezed]

Check the long article in the middle of this thread for the best recycling facts.

[Atlas Sneezed]

Well put!

[Thinkin' Gal]

These cans are nothing more than collection plates for the weekly "sweet savor" offerings to Gaia. Note that the God of Israel required sacrifices with no spot or blemish, whereas the gods of the greenies desire filthy garbage.

[rock58seg]

Recycling will make sense, when thy start paying me for my garbage!

[laredo44]

These cans are nothing more than collection plates for the weekly "sweet savor" offerings to Gaia.

I'm amazed at the number of posters here succeptible to this environmentalist sophistry. At times like this I think the collectivists really have won.

[laredo44]

Recycling will make sense, when thy start paying me for my garbage!

Money: it's the best yardstick we have.

[Gophack]

I read an article back in the 1980s when I was in college in Mother Jones. Ever hear about that magazine? We think Hilary is a liberal: Mother Jones would think she's a greedy corporate sell-out.

There was an article that decided me on th environmentalist movement long before I even cared about the issue. They wrote a huge expose on the start of the environmental (green) movement and why it was so important to teach their beliefs in schools because it was much easier to convince children of their ideas than adults; once they had converted generations of kids, they could get anything they wanted in any public policy ... if it would in any way, shape, or form "protect" or "help" the environment.

Their ultimate goal is socialism in America -- real socialism. They admitted that the sixties was one big failure except for the environment ... and that's what they've been pushing ever since.

And I can't believe how many people here on FR have bought into their socialist propaganda. Recycling may sound like a nice thing to do until you realize that it is part of their bigger socialist agenda.

[heleny]

Any metal, rubber, or other thing that could be used in the war effort was recycled.

Used fats and oils, too. 4 cents plus 2 meat points per can, according to announcements I've heard after old time radio shows. The used fats/oils could be used to make soap and other products. I don't know how big a can was, though.

[heleny]

If I was going to buy a car and it said on the invoice we add one cent to the price of every car to help pay for abortions, I wouldn't buy the car -- period -- At any price.

Sales tax goes into the general fund, and CA pays for abortions through Medi-Cal. It's just not itemized on your invoice.

Let's say CA spends $35 Million on abortions. The budget is about $100 Billion.

Let's say you buy a $20,000 car. State tax (7.25%) costs you $1450. If MediCal money came from state tax revenues, you would pay about 50 cents toward an abortion. That's far more than 1 cent. Will you refuse to buy any more cars in CA?

Please realize I'm taking some liberties with the exact funding sources of Medi-Cal. Besides, your state income taxes probably contribute more toward abortion than the sales tax on a car.

[laredo44]

I'm just a little familiar with Mother Jones News or whatever it's called. I know there really was a Mother Jones and she was a real socialist.

I heard a good talk on C-Span some years ago that explained how the communists were taking over the environmental movement. He explained how the commies weren't going to suffer their initial fate where the "working man" they claimed to speak for eventually got tired of their nonsense. They would speak for something that could never contradict them.

Actually, I have nothing against re-cycling. It is simply a competing option. When it makes economic sense, nobody will have to tell me to re-cycle, I'll be doing it for the cash.

Did you see some of the discussion about the nickel deposit on soft drinks and beer bottles and cans. Originally, the bottling companies used the deposit to get their bottles returned because they refilled the same bottle over and over again. They dropped it when it became cheaper to make new containers than to collect and sanitize the old ones. Later, legislatures re-introduced the deposit, mainly as a way to keep people from littering the roadsides with their empties.