Listening to an economist talk about how recycling has always been a religious ritual. 💁♂️✅ #EconTalk 😂
The things that we “recycle” are in fact by any definition garbage, and it costs more in resources and energy to turn it into anything useful than just throwing away. The only gain is moral superiority.
If “recycling” had any real worth, then we would be paid for the goods that we leave on the curb. Truth is, most all of the so-called recycled goods also end up in a landfill because there is no profit in it.
We are wasting more resources in this recycling mania than we would by just putting in a landfill. Environmental groups have succeeded in artificially inflating landfill costs, so as to artificially create a market for recycled goods. Even after decades of this, they have failed.
It uses more resources to recycle green glass than it would cost to go get more sand to get more glass. Further complications for glass recycling is we cannot tell what kind of glass it is by looking at it, nor do people sort or clean it properly.
This is why 100% of the time recycling plants take green glass out of the recycling process and reroute it to a landfill. There is a long list of such “recycled” products that this happens to.
The only resource we have absolutely no chance of getting back, and we all have a limited amount of, is time.
Recycling wastes your time, every single day.
Recycling wastes your time, every single day.
Cloth diapers are worse for the environment than disposable.✅🕵🏻♂️
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