Well ain't this a hell of a note. here I thought I was doing something good.

Recycling is a sham to rip the taxpayers out of 8 billion dollars a year.. paper and wood comes from tree farms, and we have enough landfill space to fit our garbage for the next 10,000 years. lies...lies...lies...

"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

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.

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.

What is even more frustrating is that in my neighborhood the sanitation department will ticket you if you don't separate your recyclables.