Posted on 10/19/2015 6:40:24 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
I love throwing dirty dog food cans in the recycling bin, and the occasional piece of plastic....
I have found that separating the recyclables ended helping only the thieves that came and took the valuable items from the cans the night before and sometimes right in front of the collection truck. When I saw that the city had no intention of upholding a law that was supposed to help keep costs down through revenue I said screw it.
My wife and I make bets on how long a discarded item will sit on the side of the road. Our last bet was on a chest freezer that the compressor went out on, it made it 14 minutes before it was loaded into the back of a truck.
LOL
There’s a tax payer paying that $0.10 per bottle, but it’s probably a bit higher than that.
So how would Jesus recycle. Would it be something like give to the earth what is of the earth, give to men what is man’s?
Recycling is practice for knuckling under to tyranny.
The recycling campaign is used as a prime example on how to coerce and motivate the public in my social psych text. Live and learn!
“Paper and plastic are not worth it except as some feel good exercise...”
I will admit that I’ve been brainwashed - and I have a good, strong brain!
I found myself cutting apart a plastic 6-pack holder (BEFORE I THREW IT AWAY!) because I’ve been brainwashed into thinking it was going to end up on the bill of a duck making it unable to feed, or trapped in the gills of a whale.
Um. Hello? I am LANDLOCKED IN WISCONSIN, Fer Pete’s Sake!
But...Wisconsin ships a LOT of her trash to those FIBS in Illinois. And gawd only knows what those godless heathens do with our trash from there on out! For all I know, they ARE dumpin’ it in the Mississippi...which makes its way to the Gulf of Mexico...which has both ducks AND whales.
I can’t win, LOL!
Oh, you are NOT going to be happy with my Post #29, LOL!
Virtue? That ship has SAILED, Sister, LOL!
I once tried to explain this to a liberal who wanted me to recycle paper at the office. I explained that, if nobody wanted to pay me for used paper, at BEST recycling was a break even as far as energy is concerned....but more likely used more. In a free market, cost of just about anything is directly related to the energy needed to make and ship it. If new paper costs less, it must have a lower ‘carbon footprint’.
She shrugged it off.
Amazing, isn’t it?
I had a friend help me clean out the Pole Barn, as she wanted to store some some of her ‘stuff’ in there.
We took an old charcoal grill, an old snowblower (which hadn’t been used in 20 years) and a whole lot of other metal ‘stuff’ down to the road.
All gone within 30 minutes!
Frankly, the energy needed to purify and heat the tap water that the bottles are cleaned with, added to the cost of melting the bottles down, costs more than just processing new glass. If the above statement were not true, somebody would pay you for those bottles.
Penn and Teller’s show BS (real name the cussword) did an episode exposing this truth a few years ago.
Ha! We recycle all the kitchen vegetable waste in my compost heap! About a quart a day! Free nitrogen that helps the pile break down.
You can pulverize egg shells in a blender and reduce them to calcium with white vinegar 1 part egg shell to 2 parts vinegar)or just crumble them and spread them where snails are! (Don’t like them apparently—sharp edges.)
Of course, the more you garden, the less you have to recycle. We have not done any canning lately, but mason jars are glass you do not normally recycle which results in cans you do not have to buy!
Had a cell phone company rep on the phone asking her why they were not sending me an itemized bill...she explaned that “ they were environmental and thats why. I told her that “...if you have to go out and get an axe to chop down a damn tree do it and send me an itemized bill!
They got the message.
In the 90’s Waste Management determined recycling to be a loser, so if you wanted to continue, it would cost $3 a month.
HA!
I don’t understand all the to do over garbage. Do you all not have a garbage disposal? Just put the stuff in there, turn on the water and flip the switch.
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