“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!
Otter: [to Boon] Gills of a whale??
Boon: Forget it, she’s rolling.
Diana in Wisconsin: And it ain’t over now. ‘Cause when the goin’ gets tough...
[thinks hard of something to say]
Diana in Wisconsin: The tough get goin’! Who’s with me? Let’s go!
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Great pleasure and satisfaction is taken by me when someone asks me where the recycling goes.
The answer is always, “In the trash”.
Re: six pack plastics....
I’ve actually seen birds trapped in them, twice in 40-odd years. So, Now I cut them up. Costs me 3 seconds and makes me feeeeeel good. :-). So, it’s harmless.
Mandatory recycling programs? Complete waste of taxpayer money. Costs millions. So- it’s not harmless, at least IMO.
Recycling aluminum is cost effective, because of the massive amounts of energy involved in smelting. Ditto other metals, to a lesser extent, and glass as well. Rest of it? Total waste of money and time.
I will say that I’ve seen the results of a 5c “bottle bill” that put a deposit on cans and bottles. Surprisingly, it cut down on the the amounts of roadside litter, thus generally approving the appearance of the roads. I guess if people didn’t toss their beer cans out of the car, they didn’t toss McD’s food wrappers and such, either. Dunno - just reporting what I saw.