I've always suspected that the recyclables we are forced to put out bi-monthly wound up in the same place as the rest of the refuse. Now it will be worse.
We'll have to see how Waste Management reacts to this new paradigm.
Posted on 07/12/2018 6:36:11 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell
Our recycle bin is just outside the kitchen door to the garage. I just open the door and throw the empty beer and whiskey bottles in. Thats the extent of my recycling and only because of the convenience for me.
Great article. Thanks for posting.
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Anything else? Just makes people feel good about themselves.
Paper, glass,and metal recycling to me makes sense since they are basic raw materials that can be reused.
Paper though can only be reused a certain number of times before the fibers become too small to be repurposed.
glass and metals can be melted down and reformed into something else.
Feeling good about one’s self is far more important to the typical idiot.
I never got into the recycling craze. Everything I discard goes straight to the dump. Newspapers, old telephone books, electronics...you name it, to the dump it goes.
BINGO!
But - it's a large amount of similar material, all clean and separated, and they already likely have a market for it.
Buncha unsorted, non-clean household trash? Who wants it?
We save our plastic shopping bags for trash can liners. The rest we donate to our church where the ladiea crochet them into blankets for the homeless.
Only thing I recycle is copper, brass and lead.
Cue the dump sequence in “The Getaway”. (The first one)
“The shipping won’t be as cheap, but recycling’s next stop is likely to be Africa where environmentalists will turn it into a trash heap…..”
Save on shipping...we already have plenty of pre existing garbage dumps right here- Camden, Gary, East St. Louis, Detroit, Compton etc.
The amount of energy recycling seems enormous compared to the plastic saved.
I mean just a gallon of gas spent driving to the recycling center is far more then the $0.0002 cents worth of plastic recycled.
I am all for separating it into different colored bags and then letting the sorting be done at collection centers (Welfare people need jobs) But the minimal amount of energy spent should be all that is done.
If recycling was economically viable, we’d be paid for our trash.
The fact is Americans pay to recycle their trash.
Another fact, it HARMS the environment to recycle anything but Aluminum from residential areas.
Commercial recycling makes sense for metals of all kinds and paper when in bulk, but that’s it.
“glass”
Glass is never a viable recycled material. It is far cheaper to make new glass than to melt, cleanse, and reformulate old glass.
It costs far (meaning it also takes more) more in diesel fuel to haul that stuff to a glass recycler than it ever saves in energy otherwise.
Wow...this dovetails perfectly with today’s Jerusalem Thread about “Virtue Signaling”. (I guess I can stop recycling now)
Great Minds Think Alike? LOL! :-)
“Shocking study reveals 90% of global plastic waste comes from just TEN rivers in Asia and Africa”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3669635/posts
Exactly. Penn and Teller also pointed out that creating papter from trees is a simple and pretty environmentally friendly endeavor. And we grow the trees now like we grow corn.
Recycling paper involves all sorts of chemical processes to remove ink, dyes, etc. It makes no sense and is more harmful than just starting from scratch.
Like Jay Lenno sez about Doritos, “[Use] all you want. We’ll make more.”
I've always suspected that the recyclables we are forced to put out bi-monthly wound up in the same place as the rest of the refuse. Now it will be worse.
We'll have to see how Waste Management reacts to this new paradigm.
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