Red State:
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For years, we've been told that recycling is the best way to keep the planet healthy and reduce pollution. Even as a child, I can remember that being impressed upon me in school, with more than one guest presentation, including songs, being taught to us to get it firmly in our heads that we need to recycle. To this day, I still feel guilt when I don't put a little blue bag of plastics out during trash day.
But lo and behold, what Captain Planet was trying to teach me back in the 90s is just like many other things that were forced on me as a kid. It's propaganda for things that actually don't matter.
Stossel's latest video on the "religion of recycling" actually makes it clear that we're not saving the planet at all, and even environmentalist groups confess this when asked frankly.
Does recycling work? Sure! On aluminum, cardboard, and glass... but that's about it. Everything else we're "recycling," especially plastics, isn't actually being recycled in ways that are saving the planet. In fact, every time plastic is recycled, it becomes less and less usable.
“Recycling is an industry that uses increasingly expensive labor to produce materials that are worth less and less,” says John Tierney, author of the New York Times Magazine story "Recycling Is Garbage."
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Some stuff should be treated as trash because it is. I can see recycling metals. I don't see cardboard as something to recycle and I suspect is is mostly burned.
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