And speaking of hoaxes and expensive, useless, feel-good virtue signaling, there's recycling

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  • American Thinker: It’s Wish-cycling, not recycling

  • JOHN STOSSEL: The Recycling Religion.  A smart column accompanied by an excellent video showing how costly and pointless recycling is, including some nice footage showing how all those plastic bags lovingly tossed into the recycling bin end up clogging and shutting down the machinery at recycling plants. Of course, a lot of the stuff from the recycling bin just goes straight to landfills.

  • ON SECOND THOUGHT, JUST TOSS THAT PLASTIC BOTTLE IN THE TRASH: Even Greenpeace Admits That Recycling Plastic Makes No Sense. Greenpeace has finally acknowledged what was obvious a quarter century ago, when I set a record for hate mail at the New York Times Magazine with a cover story, “Recycling Is Garbage.”  Environmental groups published lengthy denunciations and went on convincing municipal officials to keep adding more and more plastics to their recycling programs.  They kept up this fantasy for decades, but now a report from Greenpeace’s finally admits that recycling plastic is a hopeless cause — utterly impractical, a waste of money, and bad for the environment. Unfortunately — but inevitably — Greenpeace is now pushing an even worse alternative.

  • The Recycling Hoax. Elliot Resnick discusses environmental follies — recycling, plastic-bag bans, the “energy crisis”, the “population crisis” — with Insta-co-blogger John Tierney on his latest podcast.

  • The Perverse Panic Over Disposable Plastic

Recycling was garbage from the beginning, but that hasn’t stopped mouth-breathing politicians from posturing for their constituents. In Connecticut, the legislative session has just begun, yet the pols are already rushing in to fill any gaps in Hartford’s hot air.

In the first few days of the 2023 legislative session, lawmakers have already filed bills to ban the release of helium balloons and the use of polystyrene food trays as part of efforts to reduce trash.

Other efforts in the coming months will likely focus on getting the producers of tires, solar panels and household packaging to develop better methods for disposing of their products, as well as getting funding for new grants to set up programs that divert food scraps from the garbage bin.