Once you get the recycling thing down, it’s not that big of a deal to do it. If paper content can be recycled, I think it’s a good idea.
Glass, plastics... perhaps not a big money maker, but if it’s doing better than breaking even and can be reused, why not.
I’m not against things that make sense. If these things don’t, then I have no axe to grind to force them anyway.
The big ideas of the Left have basically turned out to be nothing more than big ideas on the Left.
Desalinate me some water. Do something productive for a change.
“...Glass, plastics... perhaps not a big money maker, but if it’s doing better than breaking even and can be reused, why not...”
In most areas it does not even come close to breaking even. The benefit is in saved landfill space but it has a very high cost.
Recycling also always costs more. Add into that the mandate to homeowners to recycle or be fined and you have government tyranny for its own sake. It is a “religion” to these people and has nothing to do with saving money.
Yep. In my neck of the woods, recycling companies bid for the rights to pick up our recycling bins. The winning bid was something like $35,000 for 2015. So it's a net gain for the community.
As for next year, who knows?
The Lefties are good at dreaming up ideas but not not so much on staying the course and seeing things through to their conclusion
I agree.
Having come from a large NE city we at least in my neighborhood had to recycle. We had recycle in our city but the revenue collectors only wrote fines in the better neighborhoods because they knew we’d pay. The ghetto, not so much.
I used to recycle every single piece of paper, can, plastic, and glass. For my family of 6 I think if the old pig farmers came aroung I wouldn’t have had any trash.
The thing is the international market for commodities is flat and negative. Nobody is buying the recycled paper cans and glass like before. Therefore the market collapses. Supply overextended and demand declining is not good for recyclers.