50 Years on, we're still being fed garbage about the supposed merits of recycling
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Fairy tales for adults
There is no shortage of landfill space, which you may recall was the original myth back in the 70s that started this nonsense, and recycling costs more and wastes far more energy than piling up waste and burying or burning it.
Residential recycling is an expensive, feel-good activity that accomplishes nothing other than enable virtue-signalers to demonstrate their “concern”, but rather than admit that the entire concept was misguided and should be abandoned, we are busy creating new ways to waste people’s time and money. Ban plastic straws: it will make no difference whatsoever. Ban plastic shopping bags: they’ll be replaced by contaminated bags that use 100X more energy to produce and will wear out (and gross out) long before that energy waste is recovered. Ban single-stream recycling, which was always a fraud, and go to six different bins for residents to sort, wash and put their garbage in. It will cost a fortune and do nothing except waste people’s time and money.
Recycling was never an idea whose time had come, but it’s definitely time to forget it and pretend it never happened.
