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the flow to fit in or agree with someone because they are the “expert”. Most people do not think for themselves. Most people do not question even statements
that do not seem to have logic. Can you think for self? Recycling is bad. Primitive religions are destructive. Global warming solutions are backwards. Feed the poor is just enabling. Rich are richer and poor are poorer is totally wrong. Getting people to use public transportation is going no solution for progress.
A lot has been made that recycling is good for the environment and even helps save the planet. The truth is most recycling is bad for the environment and only helps the bottom line of many corporations. Many children are being brought up and actually brainwashed to believe they are helping save the world simply on blind faith.
ReplyDeleteAll recycling is not bad. Recycling of metal, for instance, is mostly beneficial. The key difference is that for metal, one can take metal to a scrap dealer and get paid for the metal. This is possible because it actually cost more to mine and smelter metal than to buy recycled metal.
Howver, this is not true for paper and plastic. The cost to recycle is much greater than to simply make new paper or plastic containers. This is why governments actually have to pay to have these recycled. This fee or tax on plastic and cardboard containers is used mostly to subsidize the collection of recyclables. This fee or tax could best be used for a number of better purposes—improved infrastructure to education.
This fee being paid to corporations and organizations to collect recycled containers takes away from other social needs in order to have extra trucks for pick up, recycle container, sorting and all the promotion, when most containers could simply be put in one container for disposal. It is must less costly simply have one disposal system for all waste—including containers. To bury waste in the ground is certainly a lot cheaper than all the costs involved in recycling. It is not realistic to imply that we are running out of space to bury waste.
The meoney it cost to recycle means that more resources are taken away from the planet to provide goods to the public. It may be that producers can save money by using recycled products but if it cost more money to make those recycled available, it then cost the planet more. Cardboard used to be bought for recycling, but the cost of producing unrecycled cardboard turned out to be cheaper and much of the cardboard ended up in landfill.
This is the cost of recycling businesses. A greater cost of recycling is not even included. This is the cost of consumers who actually recycle and think they are helping the planet but are actually speeding up the destruction of the planet.
Lets take the 4 litre plastic milk jug as an example of total waste of resources. This container can be flattened and put in with other waste and take up so little space in a landfill. Instead we have many people washing out this with hot water that likely uses more resources than actual worth of plastic. In addition to this special container to store plastic and extra space such that many people actually have separate recycling rooms. All these costs that consumers spend without really considering the costs.
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It is not that to bury waste is something that is realistically more costly than the high cost of sorting and packaging.