greenramp previously posted:
"I agree to disagree. the space taken up by these collectables, the time wasted in cleaning and separating them, and unless you are hauling them with your bicycle, the air polution caused by hauling them, negates the purpose of doing it in the first place.
You are buying a piece of mind."
There's one other component to recycling, besides keeping stuff out of landfills, not polluting an already polluted environment and attaining peace of mind: reuse of finite resources.
I guess I'm lucky because Longmont makes recycling easy. The city went to single-stream recycling last year, so I can recycle everything I could before, plus all plastics, phone books, cardboard, paperboard, milk cartons and more. I no longer have to make a monthly four-mile round trip to the Martin Street recycling center to get rid of all that stuff. And Longmont has a hazardous waste recycling event once a year and a hard-to-recycle event three or four times a year.
Sounds like Sweden isn't going about it the right way. That doesn't mean recyling isn't worthwhile or governments can't run a decent recycling program. I think Longmont is doing an excellent job, at least when it comes to residential recycling.
On electric vehicles, my biggest problem with them is that electricity is generated mainly by coal-fired plants in the U.S. So they aren't emitting the nasty stuff that comes out of tailpipes but they're still contributing to air pollution.
And I agree with Chris that Americans buy too much crap that they don't need, that eventually goes to a landfill or needs to be recycled. But what really irks me is that most products today are way over-packaged. And much of that packaging isn't recyclable.
Recycling and a reason why
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