Recycling Is Evil

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The concept of recycling is great. After all, the idea of reusing junk instead of wasting it and dumping it in landfills is nice and all. However, the forms recycling takes often involves exposing people to an array of highly toxic pollutants:

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  • When the recycling mills and plants are run state of the art - they are fairly safe. Those going up in the US are usually of a state that makes them not only safe, but energy savers in ways that are incredible when compared to producing "new".

    With about 4 precious metals being endangered - with much more above ground now than remains in the ground - we don't have much choice but to start recycling in earnest.

    People should make sure, though, that they are recycling to centers which process metals within the US - not only because many of the processors overseas are not equipped to do so safely, but to keep those metals in the US.
  • i don't think so.. its reasonable though and earth friendly !
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  • The fun part is that lots places will start up recycling programs, make it mandatory to recycle, and then discover their recycling plant is costing them more money than it's making them.

    So instead of actually recycling, some area are sorting and separating and cataloging all this trash... then dropping it right in the same landfill where it was going anyway.

    Post-consumer recycling may be earth-friendly, but it sure as hell isn't cheap, and it doesn't exactly produce the high-quality materials we demand in new products. So while there's a great deal of stuff we could conceivably recycle... the demand for recycled goods just isn't anywhere near high enough to use it all.
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    • CD - that's not the true situation. I don't have the stats any more but recycling, when done right - and the US is........saves energy, money, fossil fuel, water, and it gets back resources, some of which are endangered in as soon as 10 years. Others we can stretch for the better part of the century, but we're running low on precious metals........um......scarcity........that's what made the crap "precious" in the first place.

      China is a swill pit in the first place........
      My apologies if you are Chinese and reading this. I am not talking about the people, I'm talking about the pollution levels and the toxic crap your government is allowing to go on. America is real guilty of that, too - but we're going in the right direction on some things. Recycling is one of them.

      Recycling also means that we buy products from countries who produce things with their own native metals and we recycle them over here, keep the metals in our own economy. Its one of the smartest moves our government has ever made at a time that there isn't much of some stuff left in the ground - it's all up here. Send us your cell phones, computers, etc - we'll corner the market on precious metals when the last mine closes.
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    Recycling? Evil?

    Hmm...My computer's recycle bin is an exception.
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  • It's good to see that Brogondy Griddleface takes recycling so seriously she's decided to ressurect other people's ideas. Of course it would be churlish to suggest that her article reads like something she chewed over with a few dozen pints of White Lightening and a kebab before regurgitating it on the page. But it does.
  • Watch Penn & Teller's Bull**** Show on recycling and you will realize what a joke recycling really is.
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    Recycling Is Evil

    The concept of recycling is great. After all, the idea of reusing junk instead of wasting it and dumping it in landfills is nice and all. However, the forms recycling takes often involves exposing people to an array of highly toxic pollutants: YouTube - Electronic Trash Village - China