There really is no tangible market for recycled materials. Most (>90%) ends up in a landfill as a result. But, it makes tree huggers feel superior.
Do you a reference for that?
Yep.
I remember seeing a Penn & Teller "Bull$hit" special on recycling.
They were almost apologetic, because they thought that recycling DID make sense.
Nope.
It's a BIG waste of time and money and provides absolutely no "benefit", particularly to mother earth.
You could make a *weak* argument about aluminum cans, as the homeless can pick them up and get some cash.
AFAIK, it is still CHEAPER to make the cans from raw materials than from recycled ones.
Wife and I were talking about that the other day. We create more garbage than we can handle. What is the solution? It’s certainly not recycling?
True. Recycling bins are the yellow Livestrong wrist bands for immature liberals who are ignorant of physics.
My friend works at Magic Mountain in Valencia and I was surprised when he told me that all the recycling bins at the amusement park are emptied into the regular garbage trucks and taken to the landfill. Sad. All the plastic water bottles go to landfill rather than plasma recyclers, because our politicians are ignorant of physics and plasma.
Plasma recyclers do both recycling and electricity generating: a win/win situation for every big city.
That would be a “no?”