Question by corn: are household recycling schemes a waste of time ?
only 9% of waste is from households, mose is from the industries, so is household recycling a waste of time? i know about the every little helps but hay 9% isn’t that much. so what are your thoughts ?
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Answer by AMERICAN BORN EAST INDIAN >;)
Everything helps the planet; however, if they are charging you anything just to recycle, it would not be worth your time. I am going to college in Kentucky and they charge a monthly fee of per trashcan and that even goes for the recycling can. Do I like recycling? Yes. Would I buy a recycling can just to recycle if I have to pay just for helping the environment. Heck no. They should be paying me!
What do you think? Answer below!
It takes almost no time to recycle anyway. So, no.
I wash out all my cans, bottles, etc. for recycling; I do have a trash masher, and am rethinking all this washing; I got my water bill and for two people it is double the minimum bill;
since it uses water; is recycling good after all? I will continue to recycle the paper goods, that is worth it!
Household recycling? Definitely no benefit. Recycling in general? No benefit. Now, calm down, I know all you greenies out there are gonna start waving biodegradeable bags in my face but there is some logic to my reasoning.
An American Uni professor (with a lot of spare time) calculated that at the current rate of waste disposal American would fill 35 square miles of landfill 100 yards deep with rubbish in 1000 years. Thats one tenth of one percent of the grazing real estate available for American agirculture.
Now, the most popular argument with greenies is that recycling saves the environment, right? I mean, apparently plastic bags take like 1000 years to be degraded (or something like that, Im no statistician). What they have forgotten to take into account is the extremely small amount of landfill required to dispose of said waste, landfill that almost definitely doesnt affect any natural wildlife. However, if we were to recycle said waste, it requires twice the manpower, resources and emissions that simple disposal uses.
Did you know you have to use a ceramic coffee mug 1000 times before it equalled the benefits of a 1000 foam mugs in terms of cost effectiveness and emissions? That is, your ceramic mug costs the earth more compared to foam cups. Think about it, you gotta heat your water to wash your mug, buy detergent to clean it, or power a dish washer to clean it for you = more emissions than what is required to make foam cups.
We will have bigger things to worry about than 35 miles of garbage in 1000 years, like overthrowing our robot overlords. If you actually want to make a difference, ride a motorcycle, dispose of your garbage rather than recycle, use nuclear power.
Well the trash has to go someplace. So why not reuse what we can reuse. Now if you ask the question “are household recycling schemes a waste of money” Then the answer would probably be yes. Except for aluminum.
I’m not sure how to properly address this issue. To me, recycling is like an alcoholic trying to control his drinking. Recycling addresses the end result of the problem, but not the problem. We throw too much away. In other words, things aren’t made to be reused. I’m not going to even try and answer the complexity of why we no longer reuse things, but consider for example bottled water. People could filter their own water right at home rather than buy a plastic nonreturnable bottle of water that has been sucked out of some water supply hundreds of miles away, trucked to a plant, filtered, bottled in plastic nonreturnable containers, shipped hundreds of miles to a central distribution warehouse, shipped to some huge store, again hundreds of miles, bought by the end user, consumed, tossed in a recycle bin, picked up by a truck, hauled to a scrap yard, sorted and bundled, hauled hundreds of miles to a recycling plant etc. We haven’t even gotten into the oil and all the energy expended to get the oil out of the ground, shipped to America, refined, and turned into plastic, fertilizer, fuel, clothing, and the like.
Here’s a green scenario, bring back the corner store where people can walk to shop. The corner store is loaded with locally grown, packaged, and produced items. Take a glass bottle of Coca-Cola that comes in a wooden reuseable case that isn’t full of petrolium products. Once the end user consumes the glass bottle, it’s taken back to the store for a refund. The end user walked to the store with the bottle, and the corner store puts it back in an empty wooden case to be picked up the the Coca-Cola distributer located on the other end of town. The bottle is then cleaned, refilled, and placed in a wooden case that holds 24 bottles. The cycle begins again. For those that can’t be bothered taking the empty bottles back to the store, that’s where poor kids come into play. The poor little blighters have parents that cannot afford to give them an allowance, so the poor kids scavenge the neighborhood for returnable bottles, so they can earn some honest money for soda, candy, movies, and whatever else strikes their fancy.
Too much energy is consumed by hard to recycle products. The central manufacture and distribution of all our consumer goods makes green living impossible. When the American way of life ends due to cheap energy disappearing, many people are going to be in for a huge shock. Recycling, while it has good honest intentions, is a joke! Bring back local produce, products, and durable reuseable containers.
Horrible argument for trying to torpedo other’s efforts
If you truly believe your argument I will give you a po box that you can give 9% of your earnings to since it is such a small percentage it should not matter.
Recycling after reducing and reusing is one of the easiest ways to help humanity and save money.
As for the other answer there are many places that offer free recycling in most communities and as a community it does pay if you can’t find one in your area try earth911.com