Recycling is a huge scam that allows *******s to think they're living honorable lives.

HollywoodBQ said:

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hunter2012 said:

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The illusion of free choice:

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Exactly.

When I was working for Dell in the late 1990s, they distributed blue paper recycling bins to everybody's cubes so we could recycle our printouts. They also had aluminum can recycling receptacles around the office.

I had a few crazy greenie Austin types who would get militant about forcing everybody to recycle and yelling at you if you didn't.

I had a job that frequently required me to work after hours when the janitors came around to empty the wastebaskets and recycle bins.

After watching them work, I found out that they were just taking the paper recycling and the regular trash and dumping it all into the same garbage bag. So the paper recycling was pointless except for making everybody on the day shift feel good about "being green".

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The entire industry is based on making do-gooders feel good about themselves.

I do this continuously without remorse at home too because I am convinced the two bins/trucks are dumped in the same landfill. Easier to balance the trash in each.

When my city went to recycling, trash court became a thing.
They were handing out citations like they were going out of style.
After receiving one myself I decided to send a letter to my councilman. That was pushed off to Waste mgmt.

Since then, I leave a little gift in the recycle bin that my pup provides on his walks.

Ramdiesel said:

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I watched a documentary about 15 years ago about some guy that invented a machine that would take garbage and melt the plastics or anything that contained petroleum based products back down into re-usable oil. Seemed like a good ideal for landfills and maybe lucrative for the owner of the machine. Probably got shut down by the green freaks because the machine put off some smoke/ gasses...

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Sounds like it would take more energy to operate than the oil it produces.

George Carlin had the last word...

HollywoodBQ said:

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hunter2012 said:

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The illusion of free choice:

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Exactly.

When I was working for Dell in the late 1990s, they distributed blue paper recycling bins to everybody's cubes so we could recycle our printouts. They also had aluminum can recycling receptacles around the office.

I had a few crazy greenie Austin types who would get militant about forcing everybody to recycle and yelling at you if you didn't.

I had a job that frequently required me to work after hours when the janitors came around to empty the wastebaskets and recycle bins.

After watching them work, I found out that they were just taking the paper recycling and the regular trash and dumping it all into the same garbage bag. So the paper recycling was pointless except for making everybody on the day shift feel good about "being green".

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I saw the same at my last company

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SociallyConditionedAg said:

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washing their trash

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To keep the bears out of it.

Or so I've been told. I have never heard of bear encounters anywhere near where I live. I guess it is people like him keeping them away by washing out cans and bottles.

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I wouldn't count on it anymore. Am still stunned by the recent case of a bear in the surf at Destin, FL! How on earth did it get down to it, across those highways and lack of trees, etc?

titan said:

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eric76 said:

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SociallyConditionedAg said:

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washing their trash

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To keep the bears out of it.

Or so I've been told. I have never heard of bear encounters anywhere near where I live. I guess it is people like him keeping them away by washing out cans and bottles.

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I wouldn't count on it anymore. Am still stunned by the recent case of a bear in the surf at Destin, FL! How on earth did it get down to it, across those highways and lack of trees, etc?

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Maybe it was a pet bear that the kids got for Easter (an Easter bear?) that grew too large and so they had to get rid of it.

The people that clean our offices just throw our recyclables together with the trash, normally after most go home.

we need to stick to what we do best...recycling quarterbacks

They need to find microbes that can be evolved to consume it or processes that make more economic use of it but they don't need to force it to be collected and used if it is not economical. We do need to collect it as necessary for prevention of excessive plastic pollution. We also need to consider if there are reasonable and effective alternatives to its use that can reduce plastic pollution.