The politics of recycling

[rothschild]

My understanding of recycling is that single-stream recycling means there is no actual recycling going on. If you're required to separate recyclables, that indicates that recycling is really happening.

Anyone here live in a community that has legit recycling?

[Maggot]

I have seen how they process trash. It gets dumped on a belt and people separate it. Paper, plastic,wood,glass and they toss it into bins. In the end they end up with a lot less trash and that's better than just dumping it all in the ocean like N.Y. used to do, or putting it in a landfill. I also think that using receptacles that get used to dump it into a truck vs. using people to dump the cans was a great idea and seems to be working right. The more it's separated no matter how much is better than what we had.

One truck picks up the green trash boxes and another picks up the blue paper, glass, plastic boxes.

[Carsman]

Yes my community here in SNAKELand (I HATE SNAKES) recycles correctly. We have blue bucket for glass, plastic, cans. A yellow bucket for papers, magazines, cardboard. Metals are picked up on tuesdays.

[rothschild]

We have brown bins for garbage and blue bins for recyclables. If they were actually recycling they'd have us separate glass, plastic, cans and paper. This is part of why I think it's a big load of hooey that governments are trying to "save the planet". It's just another excuse for expanding government power. If the US gov't was serious about this they'd shut down the Pentagon, which is the worst offender on the planet when it comes to environmental degradation. Instead, it's going in the opposite direction.

P. T. Barnum seriously underestimated the number of suckers that are born every minute.