'I Feel Duped on Climate Change'

[Horn6721]

Wow. Thanks for the John Stossel link.
Changing what I put in recycle bin now.
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my recycle bin has been like yours, fuller than garbage.

 

[mchammer]

My very liberal but beautiful and sweet niece (who wants to move out of Texas because the election results) told me a couple of years ago she stopped recycling plastic because her research indicated it was basically treated like trash. I didn't challenge her, but thought it was interesting. I've recycled so much stuff over the years. The contents of my cycle bin is almost always 1.5x or 2x of what is in my trash bin.

My county says recycling reduces landfill space and that landfill space is becoming expensive. I don’t know enough details to know what the county is spending on recycling vs landfill costs.

 

[BrntOrngStmpeDe]

I watched a documentary a couple of weeks ago that goes into the plastic recycling issue and it does seem that most of it is propaganda/greenwashing. There are definitely ways to make use of recycled plastic but it is still more difficult/challenging/expensive to recycle than just buy new materials so most corporations choose the lower bar approach and establish the veneer of recycling while not really doing much to put the collected material back into the supply chain.

 

[mchammer]

Germany burns their household waste for energy production since landfilling is seen as a scar on the land.

 

[mchammer]

 

[guy4321]

I got suspicious that recycling is treated as trash since they tell us to put everything together - glass, cardboard, plastic. Who would separate all that?

 

[Monahorns]

I haven't read Watts Up With That for a few years, but that site is a great resource for showing how the scientific institutions are completely dishonest and illegitimate.