[thirst4truth]

25 years ago when my oldest son was in grade school, I caught him looking through the various "recycling" bags under the kitchen sink. "What are you doing?" I asked. "My teacher asked us to find out if our parents are recycling and report back." "What?" I took all the bags, plastic, glass, paper and put them all in one bag and handed it to him to take out to the garbage can, and told him, "Now go tell your teacher that I do NOT recycle, what is she going to do about it?"

Never recycled another piece of garbage again, happy about it too.

[CodeToad]

See, it is easy to brainwash people into thinking they are “doing something”. I have wealthy, older neighbors that were excited to know the new trash company would recycle. They suck at math and never figured if their 2 pounds of plastic recycling would take more energy to recycle it than to simply toss it. They never educated themselves on the real costs and processes of dumps. Nope, they just got told throughout the 60’s and 70’s that recycling would save the planet and that the planet needed saving. Arrogance.