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The miracle of recycling
WestlinnDuck
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The eneral rule is if it is cheaper, then it’s more energy efficient and usually cleaner. The “recycling” industry is largely based on a feel good approach to a complicated problem. Turning sand into glass and oil into plastic is pretty efficient. Recycling glass and plastic is laborious and expensive. I use our recycling bin as an extra garbage can. All plastic and glass plus Styrofoam goes into it and top it off with some cardboard and newspaper. We are now paying the chicoms to take our paper and cardboard. Any guesses as to the meticulousness of the chicoms about how much they actually recycle versus just dumping?
The Oregon green gaia religionists now have us paying 5 cents for a paper bag. Used to have your choice of a free plastic bag or free paper bag. Our environmental fascists don’t support choice or free.
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/
Posted at 12:22 pm by Stephen Green
ACTUALLY, THIS IS A NO-BRAINER: Recycling is becoming so expensive that some towns don’t know what to do. The Boston Globe mournfully reports on the agonizing decision facing Westfield, Massachusetts:
On a recent afternoon here, with urgency in the air, local officials huddled to consider what until recently was unthinkable. Should they abandon their popular curbside recycling program? Or spend millions to build a plant to process plastic and paper on their own?
With the recycling market across the country mired in crisis, a growing number of cities and towns are facing a painful reckoning: whether they can still afford to collect bottles, cans, plastics, and paper, which have so plummeted in value that in some cases they have become effectively worthless.
“We’re looking at going from paying nothing to paying $500,000 a year,” said Dave Billips, the director of public works in Westfield, referring to the city’s recycling costs. “That’s going to have a major impact.”
Like his fellow devotees, Billips is understating the problem by pretending his recycling program used to break even just because it was able to give away the recyclables. He’s ignoring all the extra money that the town had to spend to collect the worthless stuff, not to mention the value of the time its citizens wasted sorting their garbage. The cheapest way to dispose of solid waste is to collect it all in one truck, send it straight to the landfill, and stop forcing people to perform greens’ favorite sacrament.
Who could have seen this coming?
The Oregon green gaia religionists now have us paying 5 cents for a paper bag. Used to have your choice of a free plastic bag or free paper bag. Our environmental fascists don’t support choice or free.
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/
Posted at 12:22 pm by Stephen Green
ACTUALLY, THIS IS A NO-BRAINER: Recycling is becoming so expensive that some towns don’t know what to do. The Boston Globe mournfully reports on the agonizing decision facing Westfield, Massachusetts:
On a recent afternoon here, with urgency in the air, local officials huddled to consider what until recently was unthinkable. Should they abandon their popular curbside recycling program? Or spend millions to build a plant to process plastic and paper on their own?
With the recycling market across the country mired in crisis, a growing number of cities and towns are facing a painful reckoning: whether they can still afford to collect bottles, cans, plastics, and paper, which have so plummeted in value that in some cases they have become effectively worthless.
“We’re looking at going from paying nothing to paying $500,000 a year,” said Dave Billips, the director of public works in Westfield, referring to the city’s recycling costs. “That’s going to have a major impact.”
Like his fellow devotees, Billips is understating the problem by pretending his recycling program used to break even just because it was able to give away the recyclables. He’s ignoring all the extra money that the town had to spend to collect the worthless stuff, not to mention the value of the time its citizens wasted sorting their garbage. The cheapest way to dispose of solid waste is to collect it all in one truck, send it straight to the landfill, and stop forcing people to perform greens’ favorite sacrament.
Who could have seen this coming?
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