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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[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. ]
I was part of a project in my county to start a recycling project which would give adults with disabilities paying jobs to receive recyclable materials and sort for the local recycle businesses. I learned during all of this that nothing is really recycled. It's a farce. We go through the motions of sorting only for these companies to pick up the dumpsters and dump all the contents in the same damn place. It's all bullshit, just like the Green New Deal.