Plastic recycling is a sham »
Posted By zaph22 9 months, 2 weeks ago in News"I have recently found out that very little of my waste gets recycled and much of it gets shipped off the third world countries where it is burned as fuel or simply dumped in a landfill. Imagine the air quality from all of that burning plastic."
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jumpmaster9 months, 2 weeks ago
Yes, but the thought of plastic recycling makes me feel soooo good.
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tchef9 months, 1 week ago
Have you been to your local landfill lately? They fill up faster than anything, not to mention the runoff of toxic waste into our ground water. It's smarter to reduce our use of these plastics than to just keep burying them.
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flyonthewallzz9 months, 2 weeks ago
"Zhang Yin has become one of world's richest women from Nine Dragons Paper recycling business, which collects waste paper from United States and ships it to China; Los Angeles-based venture America Chung Nam is top American exporter to China; Zhang hopes to challenge global paper giants International Paper, Weyerhauser and Smurfit Stone;"
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/com... DRAGONS PAPER&field=org&match=exact
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flyonthewallzz9 months, 2 weeks ago
"Zhang Yin might be the Bill Gates of bulk-recycled paper. The low-profile mother of two went from humble beginnings in China, to a top ranking on the list of the world's richest people. In fact, Forbes ranked the owner and founder of Nine Dragons Paper as the wealthiest self-made woman in the world."
http://www.legalzoom.com/legal-articles/Zhang-Y...
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Dionys9 months, 2 weeks ago
No plastic gets recycled? I wonder where all those bottles and plastic constructs that say "50-100% post-consumer recycled plastic" come from.
I can understand the RepugnantCon drive to keep their rich polluters from having to shell out a few pennies to keep their emissions down, but an attack against recycling, a program already in place for so many people just seems mean-spirited.
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civlyun9 months, 2 weeks ago
Penn & Teller did an excellent episode of BS on recycling.
On an energy and pollution basis, the only thing it really makes sense to recycle is aluminum cans.
Everything else is a waste, and causing more damage then not doing it.
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nostalgia9 months, 1 week ago
Read this info from the Ecology Center and find other other sources BEFORE you decide
Plastics Task Force
Seven Misconceptions about Plastic and Plastic Recycling
http://www.ecologycenter.org/ptf/misconceptions...
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GrainOfSand9 months, 2 weeks ago
I'd heard this too. It's just a sham. We need to get rid of plastic anything. It's a petrochemical product and we need to get off oil anyway. Maybe those plastics could be recycled into OIL or some other energy-providing product instead?
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tchef9 months, 1 week ago
I would like to see us go back to returnable bottles like we had when I was a kid. If you saw a bottle on the side of the road you picked it up because you could get money for it at any grocery store. It would create less waste and more jobs.
We should also reduce the amount of plastic packaging. I hate the way everything is sold in those welded plastic containers, they are extremely hard to open and end up in a landfill.
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Bkumm9 months, 1 week ago
It's not so much that it's a waste of time, it's just that it doesn't reduce the OVERALL use of virgin material, which is the whole point of recycling.
Plastic bottle use should be reduced and eventually eliminated. We should use glass (100% recyclable), aluminum (100% recyclable) or organic plastic (100% biodegradable).
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