John Stossel Report: Plastic Recycling Is a Dirty Lie
John Stossel reported that recycling paper and cardboard does save trees, and recycling aluminum does save energy, but most plastic cannot be recycled. Only about 5% of used plastic in the US is recycled. Science writer John Tierney said that it costs too much to recycle plastic, so much of it is shipped overseas to countries like Malaysia where it is burned or dumped in the ocean. It is cleaner to put used plastic materials in the garbage instead of recycling. Tierney said that Greens and some politicians push recycling because they “get a charge out of telling people what to do.”
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https://needtoknow.news/2024/09/john-stossel-report-plastic-recycling-is-a-dirty-lie/
[In my county we paid a hefty tax to buy the trucks & containers then they quit after a year. Refund? Checks in the mail, still waiting. Everything goes in the landfill just like before. ]
Only country that actually does some recycling is probably Japan
And Finland. Probably. Finns tend to take everything perhaps a bit too seriously. The people running the systems claim it is economical. Well, at least the fact that you can get fairly nice amounts of money back when you return the empty bottles - or just money, groups descend on festivals etc after the events to get all the bottles left there - means that there actually isn't many bottles just left lying around anywhere here.
https://finland.fi/life-society/circular-economy-success-finlands-recycling-programme-keeps-bottles-and-cans-off-the-streets/
One thing I'd say about my people is that we have a tendency towards being more than a bit naive at times.
That was interesting, thanks for posting👌