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re: Recycling is and has always been a scam
Posted on 4/1/20 at 2:48 pm to Fat Batman
Posted on 4/1/20 at 2:48 pm to Fat Batman
I live in Denver. Every time we have guests over someone cries about a lack of recycling bin at my house. I kindly suggest if it means that much to them, they can collect and bring it with them when they leave. Ask me how many of them do that.
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Posted on 4/1/20 at 2:50 pm to TheCaterpillar
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I feel like that is a large portion of the plastic we go through. Plastic bottles and milk jugs.
I’ve visited Vietnam a few times and I noticed that the locals reuse plastic bottles. For glass bottles, they send cases of it off to the soda distributors and they get cleaned and rebottled. Whole new definition of recycle.
Posted on 4/1/20 at 2:56 pm to TutHillTiger
Scam?
I can recycle 15 large black garbage bags of crushed beer cans and get enough back to buy an 18 pack of Miller High Life 12 oz cans.
Ain’t nothing wrong with that.
Have some to bring now but I’ll have to wait until JBE says I can go to the recycle place.
I do have beer though.
Stay safe, keep your distance.
I can recycle 15 large black garbage bags of crushed beer cans and get enough back to buy an 18 pack of Miller High Life 12 oz cans.
Ain’t nothing wrong with that.
Have some to bring now but I’ll have to wait until JBE says I can go to the recycle place.
I do have beer though.
Stay safe, keep your distance.
Posted on 4/1/20 at 3:09 pm to Nicky Parrish
quote:Ive often wondered what the ratio was.
I can recycle 15 large black garbage bags of crushed beer cans and get enough back to buy an 18 pack of Miller High Life 12 oz cans.
Thanks!
Posted on 4/1/20 at 3:26 pm to soccerfüt
It is hilarious to me that i would get charged to go out of my way to recycle. I'm the one doing the waste management people a solid by giving them free raw materials. why should i be the one to pay extra for it.
If they want to lower my bill b/c i recycle, then i'd opt in.
If they want to lower my bill b/c i recycle, then i'd opt in.
Posted on 4/1/20 at 3:39 pm to TeddyPadillac
no longer takes glass
only #1 or 2 plastic
they want you to rinse all of the items
not really worth it any longer.
only #1 or 2 plastic
they want you to rinse all of the items
not really worth it any longer.
Posted on 4/1/20 at 3:42 pm to back9Tiger
It’s more to prove a point but yes....I am lazy
Posted on 4/1/20 at 3:43 pm to TutHillTiger
Most people probably realize most thing aren’t actually recycled. But since I have a recycle bin and the recycle truck picks it up, why wouldn’t I use it? 10% is more than 0%.
Posted on 4/1/20 at 3:50 pm to TutHillTiger
I read yesterday that every plastic that was ever created is still on earth due to how long it takes to decompose.
Posted on 4/1/20 at 4:13 pm to BobABooey
My mom always bitches when I don’t wash out my spitters before putting them in recycling. It’s just prisoners working at the recycling place, right?
Posted on 4/1/20 at 4:26 pm to biglego
It 100% just makes people feel better about themselves. Aluminum is probably the only thing that is worth recycling (someone who has knowledge of the costs can prove me wrong)
Glass is made from sand. You know how much sand there is in the world? Yet people in my office will flip their shite if I throw a glass bottle away
Glass is made from sand. You know how much sand there is in the world? Yet people in my office will flip their shite if I throw a glass bottle away
Posted on 4/1/20 at 4:27 pm to el Gaucho
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My mom always bitches when I don’t wash out my spitters before putting them in recycling. It’s just prisoners working at the recycling place, right?
Not always true, but I don't think that's the point/reason...
Posted on 4/1/20 at 4:28 pm to TutHillTiger
And yet you have 6 downvotes
Posted on 4/1/20 at 4:33 pm to TutHillTiger
We did a plastic recycling drive at St. Benilde school in Metairie. We had a dump truck of plastics, and the recycling center gave the school a lousy $20 check for all that plastic!
Posted on 4/1/20 at 4:39 pm to TutHillTiger
I go out of my way to not recycle. Usually I just throw my crap out the car window. Much easier that way. One time me and a buddy rented a U-Haul filled with plastic straws and drove to Grand Isle and dumped it in the ocean, just to prove a point
Posted on 4/1/20 at 4:39 pm to StupidBinder
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Well, 10% is actually getting recycled. Not great but still better than nothing.
Actually, it isnt. The energy used for the recycling process is a net negative compared to what is reproduced in that process.
ETA: i believe only aluminum and glass are recycled at a net positive energy-wise. Paper and plastic is actually worse to recycle.
This post was edited on 4/1/20 at 4:46 pm
Posted on 4/1/20 at 4:41 pm to Tiger in NY
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Actually, it isnt. The energy used for the recycling process is a net negative compared to what is reproduced in that process.
Kind of like ethanol but heaven forbid we end corn subsidies in Iowa.
Posted on 4/1/20 at 4:43 pm to Nicky Parrish
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I can recycle 15 large black garbage bags of crushed beer cans and get enough back to buy an 18 pack of Miller High Life 12 oz cans.
Ain’t nothing wrong with that.
The juice doesn't seem worth the squeeze on this one.
Posted on 4/1/20 at 4:44 pm to HuskyPanda
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I read yesterday that every plastic that was ever created is still on earth due to how long it takes to decompose.
Nah.
Posted on 4/1/20 at 4:45 pm to TutHillTiger
This is a bummer. My recycling bin is full every week
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