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> On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 17:28:43 -0700, "Julie Bove"
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>>> "GM" wrote in message
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>>> https://fee.org/articles/america-fin...-doesn-t-work/
>>>
>>> America Finally Admits Recycling Doesn’t Work
>>>
>>> It’s time to admit the recycling mania is a giant placebo.
>>>
>>> Thursday, March 21, 2019
>>>
>>> by Jon Miltimore
>>>
>>> "A couple of years ago, after sending my five-year-old daughter off to
>>> school, she came home reciting the same cheerful environmental mantra I
>>> was
>>> taught in elementary school.
>>>
>>> “Reduce, reuse, recycle,” she beamed, proud to show off a bit of rote
>>> learning.
>>>
>>> The moral virtue of recycling is rarely questioned in the United States.
>>> It
>>> has been ingrained into the American psyche over several decades. On a
>>> recent trip to the Caribbean, my friend’s wife exhibited nervous guilt
>>> while
>>> collecting empty soda, water, and beer bottles destined for the trash
>>> since
>>> our resort offered no recycling bins.
>>>
>>> “I feel terrible throwing these into garbage,” she said, wearing a pained
>>> look on her face.
>>>
>>> I didn’t have the heart to tell her that there was a good chance the
>>> bottles
>>> she was recycling back in the States were ending up just like the ones on
>>> the Caribbean island we were visiting.
>>>
>>>
>>> Difficult Implementation
>>>
>>> As Discover magazine pointed out a decade ago, recycling is tricky
>>> business.
>>> A 2010 Columbia University study found that just 16.5 percent of the
>>> plastic
>>> collected by the New York Department of Sanitation was “recyclable.”
>>>
>>> “This results in nearly half of the plastics collected being landfilled,”
>>> researchers concluded.
>>>
>>> Since that time, things have only gotten worse. Over the weekend, The New
>>> York Times ran a story detailing how hundreds of cities across the country
>>> are abandoning recycling efforts.
>>>
>>> 'Philadelphia is now burning about half of its 1.5 million residents’
>>> recycling material in an incinerator that converts waste to energy. In
>>> Memphis, the international airport still has recycling bins around the
>>> terminals, but every collected can, bottle and newspaper is sent to a
>>> landfill. And last month, officials in the central Florida city of Deltona
>>> faced the reality that, despite their best efforts to recycle, their
>>> curbside program was not working and suspended it. Those are just three of
>>> the hundreds of towns and cities across the country that have canceled
>>> recycling programs, limited the types of material they accepted or agreed
>>> to
>>> huge price increases.'
>>>
>>> One reason for this is that China, perhaps the largest buyer of US
>>> recyclables, stopped accepting them in 2018. Other countries, such as
>>> Thailand and India, have increased imports, but not in sufficient tonnage
>>> to
>>> alleviate the mounting costs cities are facing.
>>>
>>> “We are in a crisis moment in the recycling movement right now,” Fiona Ma,
>>> the treasurer of California, told the Times.
>>>
>>> Cost is the key word. Like any activity or service, recycling is an
>>> economic
>>> activity. The dirty little secret is that the benefits of recycling have
>>> always been dubious for some time.
>>>
>>> “Recycling has been dysfunctional for a long time,” Mitch Hedlund,
>>> executive
>>> director of Recycle Across America, told The Times.
>>>
>>>
>>> Has Recycling Always Been An Illusion?
>>>
>>> How long? Perhaps from the very beginning. Nearly a quarter century ago,
>>> Lawrence Reed wrote about the growing fad of recycling, which state and
>>> local governments were pursuing—mostly through mandates, naturally—with a
>>> religious-like fervor. There were numerous problems with the approach, he
>>> observed.
>>>
>>> The fact is that sometimes recycling makes sense and sometimes it doesn’t.
>>> In the legislative rush to pass recycling mandates, state and local
>>> governments should pause to consider the science and the economics of
>>> every
>>> proposition. Often, bad ideas are worse than none at all and can produce
>>> lasting damage if they are enshrined in law. Simply demanding that
>>> something
>>> be recycled can be disruptive of markets and it does not guarantee that
>>> recycling that makes either economic or environmental sense will even
>>> occur.
>>>
>>> If only lawmakers had heeded Mr. Reed’s advice, or that of John Tierney,
>>> who
>>> offered similar guidance in The Times the following year.
>>>
>>> Believing that there was no more room in landfills, Americans concluded
>>> that
>>> recycling was their only option. Their intentions were good and their
>>> conclusions seemed plausible. Recycling does sometimes make sense--for
>>> some
>>> materials in some places at some times. But the simplest and cheapest
>>> option
>>> is usually to bury garbage in an environmentally safe landfill. And since
>>> there's no shortage of landfill space (the crisis of 1987 was a false
>>> alarm), there's no reason to make recycling a legal or moral imperative.
>>>
>>> That’s economics, you say. What about the environment? Well, the
>>> environmental benefits of recycling are far from clear. For starters, as
>>> Popular Mechanics noted a few years ago, the idea that we don’t have
>>> sufficient space to safely store trash is untrue.
>>>
>>> 'According to one calculation, all the garbage produced in the U.S. for
>>> the
>>> next 1000 years could fit into a landfill 100 yards deep and 35 miles
>>> across
>>> on each side--not that big (unless you happen to live in the
>>> neighborhood).
>>> Or put another way, it would take another 20 years to run through the
>>> landfills that the U.S. has already built. So the notion that we're
>>> running
>>> out of landfill space--the original impetus for the recycling boom--turns
>>> out to have been a red herring.'
>>>
>>>
>>> Recycling Efforts Backfire and Create Waste Themselves
>>>
>>> And then there are the energy and resources that go into recycling. How
>>> much
>>> water do Americans spend annually recycling items that end up in a
>>> landfill?
>>> How much fuel is spent deploying fleets of barges and trucks across
>>> highways
>>> and oceans, carrying tons of garbage to be processed at facilities that
>>> belch their own emissions?
>>>
>>> The data on this front is thin, and results on the environmental
>>> effectiveness of recycling vary based on the material being recycled. Yet
>>> all of this presumes the recyclables are not being cleaned and shipped
>>> only
>>> to be buried in a landfill, like so much of it is today. This, Mises
>>> would,
>>> say is planned chaos, the inevitable result of central planners making
>>> decisions instead of consumers through free markets.
>>>
>>> Most market economists, Reed points out, “by nature, philosophy, and
>>> experience” a bunch skeptical of centrally planned schemes that supplant
>>> choice, were wise to the dynamics of recycling from the beginning.
>>>
>>> As engineer and author Richard Fulmer wrote in 2016,
>>>
>>> 'Recycling resources costs resources. For instance, old newsprint must be
>>> collected, transported, and processed. This requires trucks, which must be
>>> manufactured and fueled, and recycling plants, which must be constructed
>>> and
>>> powered.
>>>
>>> All this also produces pollution – from the factories that build the
>>> trucks
>>> and from the fuel burned to power them, and from the factories that
>>> produce
>>> the components to build and construct the recycling plant and from the
>>> fuel
>>> burned to power the plant. If companies can make a profit recycling paper,
>>> then we can be confident that more resources are saved than are used.
>>> However, if recycling is mandated by law, we have no such assurance.
>>>
>>> Again, economics is the key.'
>>>
>>> It’s time to admit the recycling mania is a giant placebo. It makes people
>>> feel good, but the idea that it improves the condition of humans or the
>>> planet is highly dubious.
>>>
>>> It’s taken three decades, but the actions of hundreds of US cities suggest
>>> Americans are finally willing to entertain the idea that recycling is not
>>> a
>>> moral or legal imperative...."
>>>
>>> </>
>>>
>>> Jonathan Miltimore is the Managing Editor of FEE.org. His
>>> writing/reporting
>>> has appeared in TIME magazine, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Forbes, Fox
>>> News, and the Washington Times.
>>>
>>> Reach him at .
>>>
>>> </>
>>>
>>> ==
>>>
>>> Well I understand that, but I still like to be able to take my garbage to
>>> the garbage centre every week to let them sort it all out )
>>
>> You have to take it yourself?
>
> Imbecile dumb **** can't trim before posting her widdle bit of
> worthless shit... TYPICAL LEFT/WEST COAST MORON!
> You sicko POS.
>

Relax Poopeye, just pretend she's yoose aunt or mammy or daughter, then
shove yoose big ole saw-seege in deep, till she squeals.

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