Do you think recycling is a scam?
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Are things actually being recycled? Where I live, we pay for recycling, but I don't think things are getting recycled, and sometimes the same bins go into the truck along with the garbage.
Most recycling went on a boat to China, but that got stopped, so now the US hasn't really figured out how we should recycle our own junk.
Most recycling went on a boat to China, but that got stopped, so now the US hasn't really figured out how we should recycle our own junk.
Where I live we have two different trucks that take the recycling and the rubbish, you can tell they are different due to the image they have on the side of the truck, one states it's recycling and the other states it is rubbish.
I don't believe that recycling is a scam but I do believe more needs to be done to get more people to recycle.
I don't believe that recycling is a scam but I do believe more needs to be done to get more people to recycle.
Recycled materials are a commodity which are subject to the same supply and demand issues as any other commodity. If there's is no demand, that carefully sorted material will end up in a landfill.
Recycling is not a scam but it's also not a solution. The solution is to reuse rather than recycle. Recycling is expensive, finite (many materials degrade when recycled), harmful to the environment and collected materials often end up dumped on foreign shores.
We need to learn to reuse rather than recycle.
Recycling is not a scam but it's also not a solution. The solution is to reuse rather than recycle. Recycling is expensive, finite (many materials degrade when recycled), harmful to the environment and collected materials often end up dumped on foreign shores.
We need to learn to reuse rather than recycle.
Every time our local recycling service puts out some sort of promotional materials on container/plastic recycling, I'm reminded that probably 90% of things that typically end up in that side of the recycling bin... are not actually recyclable. Might as well just give up.
We have two bins here which are trash and recycling. I honestly don't mind or care about doing so, but since we pay for it may as well do it.
Reduce, reuse, recycle was a big thing taught when I was in school.
Uncrowned Guard
Resident
To say it is a scam... Idk. But I would say that most people don't realize how much is recycled vs how much of that material can actually be reused by the economy. The scam comes in with these big companies taking "reduce, reuse, recycle" and refusing to reduce, making their stuff unreusable, and then stating that the customer recycling will make it all better.
Reduce, reuse, and recycle is the key saying, but it is also the order of how effective each step of the process is and recycling is definitely the least effective step.
Reduce, reuse, and recycle is the key saying, but it is also the order of how effective each step of the process is and recycling is definitely the least effective step.
I admire people who believe in it, but I don't think it makes a difference in many cases. It's unbelievable, for instance, the amount of plastic wasted at even just a fast food restaurant.
Of course, now everything is made with plastic, at least in the past we had paper and glass for containers.
Of course, now everything is made with plastic, at least in the past we had paper and glass for containers.
guyyanthony
Paragon
i'm on the fence about this, as i don't believe that everything gets "Recycled"....
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