How Green are you?
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Kind of hard to recycle and be green when the government doesn't follow up on their end of it as in no one can be green. Let me tell you the truth. Recycling is a lie and has been for a very long time. For one, it's expensive and overpriced. China and a majority of other countries don't reuse it and they're NOT interested in taking our garbage and REUSING it because they don't want to spend money on it. Pretty much all that plastic they're supposed to recycle just ends up getting dumped into the ocean. Only a small bit of it get's looked at before they dump it in the sea. That's where it's been being dumped for years.
Is Recycling a Waste of Time? - Green That Life
Is recycling a waste of time? I was wondering this very question the other day while reading a Facebook post about recycling plastic. Someone had asked if it
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Recycling Is a Waste | National Review
All of the trash Americans produce over the next millennium would fit on one-tenth of 1 percent of the land available for grazing.
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Plastic recycling from Europe is being dumped in Asian waters
New research has for the first time quantified the volume of plastic from European countries (EU, UK, Switzerland and Norway) that contributes to ocean littering from exported recycling.
www.sciencedaily.com
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I'm into being eco-friendly. It doesn't just mean recycling. It also means reducing your usage, rethinking what you buy, etc. I tend to make my own products. We also use canvas bags for the stores & containers for restaurants.
@Terminated I have heard that too unfortunately, about some places shipping plastics off to China & them not recycling. It is a shame! But... I still believe in recycling & doing what we can, again by the reduce & rethink methods. Also, not all places ship theirs to China. I asked our local one & they use some as Waste to Energy. So while it's not being recycled, it is at least being used for 'something' other than increasing landfill space. Pros & cons.
We have to get on the Government, companies for making these laws & products but it's up to us consumers the most. Supply & demand. If we don't buy it, they have to Rethink!
@Terminated I have heard that too unfortunately, about some places shipping plastics off to China & them not recycling. It is a shame! But... I still believe in recycling & doing what we can, again by the reduce & rethink methods. Also, not all places ship theirs to China. I asked our local one & they use some as Waste to Energy. So while it's not being recycled, it is at least being used for 'something' other than increasing landfill space. Pros & cons.
We have to get on the Government, companies for making these laws & products but it's up to us consumers the most. Supply & demand. If we don't buy it, they have to Rethink!
Yes. I mentioned that in my above post with a link from Science Daily at the end of my post. What did you think of the article?
Well. Greta Thunberg is doing everything she can to get people to listen. You can see that it's in vain. The governments are just using her as a publicity stunt. They have no real agenda on doing anything.
Aside from that. lot of places just don't care. The American government has a lot of "no pollution and littering laws." All we've been doing is just shipping our trash elsewhere and another country gets it and decides they'll just go dump it in the sea or burn it.
While burning is a great solution, people then complain that fire is bad for the ozone layer because of all the fumes from the chemicals are going up into the atmosphere and getting trapped into the ozone. Another study has suggested that fire is good for the environment. Ultimately it's a damned if you do and damned if you don't situation.
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@Terminated I mentioned the Not all places ship to China so I could lead into our local one & encourage people to get to know their recycling facility & ask questions.
The vids are pretty good. I've seen many of these already.
I used to like Greta but she's more a puppet now than anything. While I do believe she wants to do good, it's for the wrong reasons.
I had the same problem with Road Pick-up. To me, it was just moving trash from one area to another. They didn't even try to recycle some of the stuff. Some like cardboard could be composted.
The vids are pretty good. I've seen many of these already.
I used to like Greta but she's more a puppet now than anything. While I do believe she wants to do good, it's for the wrong reasons.
I had the same problem with Road Pick-up. To me, it was just moving trash from one area to another. They didn't even try to recycle some of the stuff. Some like cardboard could be composted.
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I don't think Greta's aware that she's not being taken seriously. While I do appreciate her passion for the world to be a better place. . I am convinced that the damage done to the environment is irreparable. The primary problem is Overpopulation right now. Eventually FOOD is going to be a problem.
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@Terminated My belief is food is not an issue. We have more than enough food in this world. A high percentage is pitched to landfill. Stores & restaurants throw out perfectly good food rather than donating it. Their excuse is that if they give it away, people won't buy it. The average person wastes food.
Overpopulation is a concern. It wouldn't be bad if humans weren't so wasteful. Not just with food, but with their lives in general.
Overpopulation is a concern. It wouldn't be bad if humans weren't so wasteful. Not just with food, but with their lives in general.
Indeed overpopulation is a concern. It's the root problem to mass pollution because recycling was a lie, wars, civil unrest, mass extinction of other species, over fishing, advancement in medical care, and pandemics. Eventually food shortages will become a thing as our numbers continue to climb. I don't want to come off crazy but I think mother nature doesn't want us to keep reproducing. That's why it keeps making pathogens to kill off our numbers and get us under control. But it can't so mother nature keeps on making one epidemic after another until she succeeds. In the 2000's we had Mad Cow Disease and the Chinese SARS. In 2008, there was Swine Flu. In 2015, we had Ebola over in Africa and a few cases in the US, and today we have COVID and it's everywhere.
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