China Throws the Recycling Scam in the Trash - Greenfield

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[rktman]

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[cuban leaf]

The Penn and Teller Bullsh** episode on Recycling is a must watch. I used to be an avid recycler. Not any more. I don’t do it at all.

[Georgia Girl 2]

We just got a notification from our county that as of July 1st there will be no more glass recycling and just throw the glass in the regular trash. They have reduced our trash collection bill accordingly.

[tomkat]

I was never keen on doing the work of sorting stuff that can be reused (ie sold to someone) without being compensated for my time/effort via free/discounted trash pickup, etc.

But the best part of this DG piece is the piss it pours on the utopian corn flakes of the Gaia lunatics.

LMAO !

[wally_bert]

My spouse who is true believer in recycling would have to be sedated first.

Other than metal, I see no point in it.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“Even the Communists got tired of sorting through the trash of American socialists.”

LOL!

[Sans-Culotte]

I used to be an avid recycler. Not any more. I don’t do it at all.

I don't either. All my trash goes into the same trash bag. No sorting out of anything.

[cherry]

we do recycle....I realize it probably has only a minute effect but its something...

if it doesn't go to the recylers, it goes in the trash, and our garbage bill goes up...

we never donate our soda cans...we can get money for that...

the most important thing really is to reuse things...stop the tons of packaging...

[Diana in Wisconsin]

I, for one, will always compost - but that’s to benefit MY garden and MY food production.

We crush & save Aluminum soda/water cans, and cash them in when we take other metals to the scrap yard.

The rest of the stuff? We burn paper trash (it’s allowed where we live) or shred it and add that to the compost pile, too. Plastics are either washed and re-used a few times, or they go into the recycling bin.

I know not everyone has these options, but as a whole, this ‘recycling’ scam IS going to come back and bite communities in the pocketbook.

But, we already knew that. ;)

[Vlad The Inhaler]

Several years back our local newspaper ran a story exposing the fact that much of the recyclables trucked to the recycling center were never processed there.

They were just reloaded on other trucks and hauled back across the city to the garbage transfer facility for processing.

There the recyclables are consolodated with other trash and reloaded on trucks and hauled to the landfill.

Not only is there almost no benefit to having the public collecting and sorting recyclables.
The county incurs a lot of added expense by keeping the scam going.

I never saw any follow-up to the story so I suspect the pressure was on to kill the exposé.

[cuban leaf]

Other than metal, I see no point in it.

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You need to show your wife that video. The funny part is that at the end of the video they actually say that, for the average consumer, the only thing worth recycling is what they pay you to recycle - aluminum cans. That
s why they pay you. It’s worth doing, financially.

Seriously though, find that video and show your wife. It’s quite entertaining and also an eye opener in ways you don’t expect.

[cuban leaf]

the most important thing really is to reuse things...stop the tons of packaging...

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That’s the key for me. It’s not about recycling garbage. It’s really about producing less of it.

BTW, Where I live I actually do separate my trash into three groups: Group one (food) is fed to our chickens. Group two (Paper, wood and plastic) is burned. Group three (everything else) is put in plastic grocery store bags. There’s not much of it. Every few days I take a bag with me to work and throw it in a public trash receptacle between the parking garage and my office.

I pay a Louisville income tax even though I live 75 miles from there. I figure I might as well get SOMETHING for my money.

And to be clear, this is actually more convenient than dragging trash cans the 1/4 mile from my house to the street every week.

[joshua c]

I recycle because I can drop it off at the dump for free. Have to pay to drop off trash.

VA burns its trash for energy. I am wondering if the recycling isn’t burned too. Plastic, glass and metal all go in one bin. Only paper and cardboard are separate. ??

[wally_bert]

Sometime it might happen.

I am a paper/newsprint/cardboard-phobe. That stuff goes in the trash ASAP.

[butlerweave]

Recycling is making money off of the Garbage that just takes a little long to get to the Dump ,LOL

[goodnesswins]

"the most important thing really is to reuse things...stop the tons of packaging"...

Yepp....getting a small box, inside a big box (from AMAZON) is ridiculous...

[BitWielder1]

I had a dream of me in front of the Pearly Gates:

St. Peter: You are not welcome here.
Me: But I *recycled*!
St. Peter: You're an idiot! Downstairs with you.

[SkyDancer]

Takes more energy to recycle than the benefits from recycling; plus the products made from recycling are more expensive to produce and their cost.