re: What ever happened to recycling?

If recycling is the reason for these pathetic new Pure Life plastic water bottles, then I'm out.

When it all started back in the 70’s we were told to do it, or really bad things would happen.
Some said we had less than 20 years before we’d start to see environmental damage that could jeopardize humanity

It seemed as though Most everyone started recycling.

The science has evidently been wrong for decades
The warnings kept coming. They even got worse.

Here we are and now we see recycling ending in some cities. Other places, it’s just paper products. No glass. Some won’t take plastic.

I have stopped recycling completely. It’s a waste of effort.


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It’s a way for leftists in cities to feel “good” about their mass consumerism (“…but at least we recycle!”) while also giving them a high horse of smug elitism over the “backwards” rural areas that don’t offer/care about the scam of recycling (…”ugh can you believe they don’t even recycle there”)

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I’ve always wondered - why so rednecks hate the environment so much? They despise anything that is associated with being eco-friendly.

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^ see

It’s a scam. Most of it was sold to the Chinese who threw it in their own dumps.

And what did get recycled cost an exorbitant amount of energy, and produced huge amounts of emissions.

Fake fake fake

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When those arse holes started nit picking my recycling stuff and wouldn’t take it sometimes.

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Yeah, kind of like when you go into one of those one fast casual restaurants where they have like 4 different recycling cans for different materials. They want you to put your plastic utensils in one; your cup in another; etc.

I took one look at that clusterfrick, shrugged, and just threw all my stuff in the regular trash.

Unintended consequences

I put my used motor oil in the recycling bend. Just dump it all over the dumb crap my wife puts in there

80% of US aluminum production is from recycled material. That is the recycling stream that makes the most sense. It is a huge difference in energy consumption for recycled Aluminum vs Primary Aluminum production.

It is shipped to asia where they burn it.