Liberalism is an IQ test. The smug people are the dumb people.
I have to wash the garbage I put in the recycling bin so we don’t have flies in the garage.
My parents never washed the garbage. I know this because I used to empty the wastebaskets every day and take the garbage out every week.
The same with “climate change,” it’s a religion and will make us poorer and lead to tyranny.
recycling is energy costing. It costs more to make products from recycled stuff than from original. It’s an energy waster. But heck, it helps global warming or saves the rats or something.
My daughters ask me why we don’t recycle. I told them there is no money in it. If there was, someone would pay me to recycle.
I will ALWAYS compost veggie scraps and garden waste and will burn what I can - but I might not always ‘recycle’ as I should. I will crush cans and save aluminum for cash, but it’s not an obsession by any means.
However, he makes a good point that those stuck in Liberal Cities or, ‘In Town’ as we call them, have to have a place to keep their recyclables until pick-up day which can be messy and stinky in the heat of summer.
I live in the boonies and have NEVER had a problem getting rid of anything; I haul it to the ‘curb’ and it’s gone in sixty seconds. ;)
I ‘release’ it back into The Universe and if someone else wants to profit from it, so much the better. :)
Recycling, like windmills, is a racket!
Aluminum makes sense to recycle
Glass and non-aluminum is borderline
Paper and plastic are not worth it except as some feel good exercise
Yes, but it makes you feel virtuous.
NYT Magazine ran an article 20 years ago or so explaining how recycling requires more energy than using raw materials offsetting any environmental advantage. Also, that the lower grade recyclables (the number on the recycle triangle) are just dumped as they are not really recyclable or worth recycling. It is all a sham to get us in lock step.
I throw everything in the same bin...let them sort it out. I got better things to do with my time.
I recycle my aluminum [beer cans] and rinse out my cans, etc., so ye garbage doesn’t stink. And everything that would raise a stink gets chopped up and flushed. Works for me! I’m lazy...
Here in Calif. they outlawed plastic bags for groceries and urged everyone to use the cloth bags to “save the environment.” We know a guy who works in a landfill and guess what. People are throwing away the cloth bags — which take up far more space in the landfill and much longer to deteriorate than the plastics.
Environmentalism is stuck in the 1960s.
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.
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!
Penn and Teller’s show BS (real name the cussword) did an episode exposing this truth a few years ago.