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Not many people ask what happens after you throw the stuff in those bins or blue bags.
I will reduce and reuse whenever I can, but I generally don't recycle.
what about recycling glass? they didn't do my homework for me on that front... anyone else know about whether recycling glass is worth it?
My recycling center has hazardous waste collection (motor oil, antifreeze, batteries large and small, etc.) and also has reusable materials areas that functions similar to a free Goodwill store, and set-aside areas for consumables others might like to reuse (its where I get all my cardboard moving boxes... its a college town).
The truth on recycling in the UNITED STATES is that it is poorly managed and a great proportion of the volume of recycling is inefficient and driven by subsidies instead of market forces. (excluding valuable metals, etc.)
There, summed it all up very quickly without any bullshit
One of my customers is a bar. Back in the 70s, they used to recycle their bottles and cans. Different bins for clear, green and brown glass. They fill up a dumpster every single day now because none of the refuse companies (now calling themselves "recycling" companies in the Bushian manner of the "Clean Air Act" and the "Healthy Forests Initiative") will actually recycle glass. Yes, one suburban Mom driving an SUV to the recycling center is less efficient than just throwing her paper sack of bottles away. But if every bar in a college town recycled their bottles and cans? That is a significant difference. But, follow the money. Refuse company owners and bar owners have more political clout, so no business is required to recycle, and instead we get only "feel good" programs for private citizens.
Science, economy, military, you have it all. But a sense of responibility? No.
Planting treees in the outdoors is way nicer than being in some building sorting out other people cans and shit. Obviously there is going to be some work somewhere in the garbage industry that most people wouldn't like to do, P & T are just saying that it shouldn't be in the recycling center, since recycling is bullshit (so they say, I'm not so sure....).
They successfully point out a lot of problems with recycling, and point out that the landfill argument is junk, but they avoid discussing what recycling is doing right and what the next steps to making reusing and recycling more cost effective and economically valuable, especially to corporation.
Please do not post entire episodes of television shows. That's what BitTorrent is for.
I say 3.5 because it dosn't have a number. It's stuck between 3 and 4.
in long-term, recycling pays off, also economically.
"For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat and wrong."
I'd say that may be true for some recycling, like old fridges, paint, chemicals etc in short hazardous materials. as for food, paper, cardboard, most plastic, wood, iron etc, recycling the stuff actually not only costs more, but its actually MORE dangerous to the environment than not doing it, like the video says.
Is all that waste good? No, so the best thing to do is to think environment BEFORE making all the waste, like less packaging, not using chemicals in stuff and to produce stuff etc. Theres plenty of stuff to do to help reduce the amount of dangerous waste outside recycling.
Paper recycling for instance, is bullshit, because unless you only throw away blank sheets of paper (almost noone does) and/or separate colored from "text" paper (I believe germany is best at this (around 90%, most are 40% or less..) they need to bleach it, process it, and mix it with new mass just to make toilet paper, a process that does more harm than good. Not to mention that it can only be done once for paper so the BEST we can hope for is that paper can be used maybe 1 and a half times. "recycling" sounds like we can use the same paper over and over forever, well, no luck, we're not even using it twice.
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