On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 17:28:43 -0700, "Julie Bove"
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>> "GM" wrote in message
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>> https://fee.org/articles/america-fin...-doesn-t-work/
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>> America Finally Admits Recycling Doesn’t Work
>>
>> It’s time to admit the recycling mania is a giant placebo.
>>
>> Thursday, March 21, 2019
>>
>> by Jon Miltimore
>>
>> "A couple of years ago, after sending my five-year-old daughter off to
>> school, she came home reciting the same cheerful environmental mantra I
>> was
>> taught in elementary school.
>>
>> “Reduce, reuse, recycle,” she beamed, proud to show off a bit of rote
>> learning.
>>
>> The moral virtue of recycling is rarely questioned in the United States.
>> It
>> has been ingrained into the American psyche over several decades. On a
>> recent trip to the Caribbean, my friend’s wife exhibited nervous guilt
>> while
>> collecting empty soda, water, and beer bottles destined for the trash
>> since
>> our resort offered no recycling bins.
>>
>> “I feel terrible throwing these into garbage,” she said, wearing a pained
>> look on her face.
>>
>> I didn’t have the heart to tell her that there was a good chance the
>> bottles
>> she was recycling back in the States were ending up just like the ones on
>> the Caribbean island we were visiting.
>>
>>
>> Difficult Implementation
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>> As Discover magazine pointed out a decade ago, recycling is tricky
>> business.
>> A 2010 Columbia University study found that just 16.5 percent of the
>> plastic
>> collected by the New York Department of Sanitation was “recyclable.”
>>
>> “This results in nearly half of the plastics collected being landfilled,”
>> researchers concluded.
>>
>> Since that time, things have only gotten worse. Over the weekend, The New
>> York Times ran a story detailing how hundreds of cities across the country
>> are abandoning recycling efforts.
>>
>> 'Philadelphia is now burning about half of its 1.5 million residents’
>> recycling material in an incinerator that converts waste to energy. In
>> Memphis, the international airport still has recycling bins around the
>> terminals, but every collected can, bottle and newspaper is sent to a
>> landfill. And last month, officials in the central Florida city of Deltona
>> faced the reality that, despite their best efforts to recycle, their
>> curbside program was not working and suspended it. Those are just three of
>> the hundreds of towns and cities across the country that have canceled
>> recycling programs, limited the types of material they accepted or agreed
>> to
>> huge price increases.'
>>
>> One reason for this is that China, perhaps the largest buyer of US
>> recyclables, stopped accepting them in 2018. Other countries, such as
>> Thailand and India, have increased imports, but not in sufficient tonnage
>> to
>> alleviate the mounting costs cities are facing.
>>
>> “We are in a crisis moment in the recycling movement right now,” Fiona Ma,
>> the treasurer of California, told the Times.
>>
>> Cost is the key word. Like any activity or service, recycling is an
>> economic
>> activity. The dirty little secret is that the benefits of recycling have
>> always been dubious for some time.
>>
>> “Recycling has been dysfunctional for a long time,” Mitch Hedlund,
>> executive
>> director of Recycle Across America, told The Times.
>>
>>
>> Has Recycling Always Been An Illusion?
>>
>> How long? Perhaps from the very beginning. Nearly a quarter century ago,
>> Lawrence Reed wrote about the growing fad of recycling, which state and
>> local governments were pursuing—mostly through mandates, naturally—with a
>> religious-like fervor. There were numerous problems with the approach, he
>> observed.
>>
>> The fact is that sometimes recycling makes sense and sometimes it doesn’t.
>> In the legislative rush to pass recycling mandates, state and local
>> governments should pause to consider the science and the economics of
>> every
>> proposition. Often, bad ideas are worse than none at all and can produce
>> lasting damage if they are enshrined in law. Simply demanding that
>> something
>> be recycled can be disruptive of markets and it does not guarantee that
>> recycling that makes either economic or environmental sense will even
>> occur.
>>
>> If only lawmakers had heeded Mr. Reed’s advice, or that of John Tierney,
>> who
>> offered similar guidance in The Times the following year.
>>
>> Believing that there was no more room in landfills, Americans concluded
>> that
>> recycling was their only option. Their intentions were good and their
>> conclusions seemed plausible. Recycling does sometimes make sense--for
>> some
>> materials in some places at some times. But the simplest and cheapest
>> option
>> is usually to bury garbage in an environmentally safe landfill. And since
>> there's no shortage of landfill space (the crisis of 1987 was a false
>> alarm), there's no reason to make recycling a legal or moral imperative.
>>
>> That’s economics, you say. What about the environment? Well, the
>> environmental benefits of recycling are far from clear. For starters, as
>> Popular Mechanics noted a few years ago, the idea that we don’t have
>> sufficient space to safely store trash is untrue.
>>
>> 'According to one calculation, all the garbage produced in the U.S. for
>> the
>> next 1000 years could fit into a landfill 100 yards deep and 35 miles
>> across
>> on each side--not that big (unless you happen to live in the
>> neighborhood).
>> Or put another way, it would take another 20 years to run through the
>> landfills that the U.S. has already built. So the notion that we're
>> running
>> out of landfill space--the original impetus for the recycling boom--turns
>> out to have been a red herring.'
>>
>>
>> Recycling Efforts Backfire and Create Waste Themselves
>>
>> And then there are the energy and resources that go into recycling. How
>> much
>> water do Americans spend annually recycling items that end up in a
>> landfill?
>> How much fuel is spent deploying fleets of barges and trucks across
>> highways
>> and oceans, carrying tons of garbage to be processed at facilities that
>> belch their own emissions?
>>
>> The data on this front is thin, and results on the environmental
>> effectiveness of recycling vary based on the material being recycled. Yet
>> all of this presumes the recyclables are not being cleaned and shipped
>> only
>> to be buried in a landfill, like so much of it is today. This, Mises
>> would,
>> say is planned chaos, the inevitable result of central planners making
>> decisions instead of consumers through free markets.
>>
>> Most market economists, Reed points out, “by nature, philosophy, and
>> experience” a bunch skeptical of centrally planned schemes that supplant
>> choice, were wise to the dynamics of recycling from the beginning.
>>
>> As engineer and author Richard Fulmer wrote in 2016,
>>
>> 'Recycling resources costs resources. For instance, old newsprint must be
>> collected, transported, and processed. This requires trucks, which must be
>> manufactured and fueled, and recycling plants, which must be constructed
>> and
>> powered.
>>
>> All this also produces pollution – from the factories that build the
>> trucks
>> and from the fuel burned to power them, and from the factories that
>> produce
>> the components to build and construct the recycling plant and from the
>> fuel
>> burned to power the plant. If companies can make a profit recycling paper,
>> then we can be confident that more resources are saved than are used.
>> However, if recycling is mandated by law, we have no such assurance.
>>
>> Again, economics is the key.'
>>
>> It’s time to admit the recycling mania is a giant placebo. It makes people
>> feel good, but the idea that it improves the condition of humans or the
>> planet is highly dubious.
>>
>> It’s taken three decades, but the actions of hundreds of US cities suggest
>> Americans are finally willing to entertain the idea that recycling is not
>> a
>> moral or legal imperative...."
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>>
>> Jonathan Miltimore is the Managing Editor of FEE.org. His
>> writing/reporting
>> has appeared in TIME magazine, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Forbes, Fox
>> News, and the Washington Times.
>>
>> Reach him at .
>>
>> </>
>>
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>> Well I understand that, but I still like to be able to take my garbage to
>> the garbage centre every week to let them sort it all out )
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>You have to take it yourself?

Imbecile dumb **** can't trim before posting her widdle bit of
worthless shit... TYPICAL LEFT/WEST COAST MORON!
You sicko POS.