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...and, finally...

I'm all for recycling.

If it worked.

But Big Government had to go and interfere, making it a mandate rather than a profit, and therefore doomed.


Too bad. If supply and demand would have taken their course, there'd be a battle over recyclables. As it stands, the infrastructure was forced, and is inefficient as a result, making it an environmental disaster.


And doing a little more research into the global warming "problem" -- a look through eyes that are mounted in a cooler head shows that the warmer Earth's temperature has been, the more humans have thrived.

Dinsdale wrote:I'm all for recycling.

If it worked.

It certainly has worked well for KFC Paul. Or not.

Dinsdale wrote:I'm all for recycling.

If it worked.

Praytell, how does recycling not work?

War Wagon wrote:

Dinsdale wrote:I'm all for recycling.

If it worked.

Praytell, how does recycling not work?

Well, you see, it all has to do with the evil government. Everything they touch has turned to shit. Just look at the military.

War Wagon wrote: Praytell, how does recycling not work?

Praytell, how DOES it work?


Been through this before -- if it used less energy and resources to recycle something rather than make a new one, take a big guess what?

The free market would already be recycling the shit.

But the government has to subsidize recycling programs. Why? Because it OBVIOUSLY uses more energy and resources to recycle.

Car batteries? Been recycled longer and more successfully than any other consumer product in history. They pay you for old car batteries.

Cardboard? Don't know about where you are, but 'round here, you can take truckloads of cardboard to these big recycling outfits and get paid for it. Why? OBVIOUSLY it uses less energy and resources to recycle the cardboard than to make new cardboard. Matter of fact, the big privately-owned recycling center that used to be up the street from me used to have huge compactors for glass and plastics and stuff... because they could make money off it if people brought it to them... not much money (so the manager guy told me), but enough to break even on the payments for the compactors, which would ultimately lead to profitability down the road. But then Big Government stepped in, and made what was an exploding industry a dustbowl... nice work, libs. Way to ensure decades of environmental trashing in the name of Big Government brainwashing people into thinking they're doing the right thing when they're not. The old system was beggining become very efficient, and was growing by the day -- but government interference killed it dead in its tracks.


Wanna help the environment? Throw the freaking milk jugs away. Then, when all that petroleum is going to landfills, people will find a way to use it efficiently -- not at the point of a gun, but on their way to the bank... the way it's always worked.


But all incentives and ingeniuty has been removed from the equation, so let the environment and economy suffer.


Use two gallons of oil to save one -- genius.

Dinsdale wrote: Praytell, how DOES it work?

By the fact that on average I now have one bag of landfill trash a week rather than two. The company that does the pickup of recyclables seems to make a decent profit.

But the government has to subsidize recycling programs.

Link?

Cardboard? Don't know about where you are, but 'round here, you can take truckloads of cardboard to these big recycling outfits and get paid for it.

Seems you just posted an example of why recycling does work, in contradiction to your earlier statement.

So what's the problem?

The old system was beggining become very efficient, and was growing by the day -- but government interference killed it dead in its tracks.

Again, I'll plead ignorance and request that you back that up with some facts or a link that explains just exactly how government interference "killed" recycling. Around here, it seems to be working quite well.

l to r, my marriage, bbqjones

believe me when i say i try my best to recysclea all that, but when the can man doesnt take that one bottle of budweiser or when i hit it really big on a scratch ticket a corona and leaves it in the bin, it makes me really mad. i just assume throw the fucking cans in the neighbors yard or put them in with the catpoop trash. recycling is stupid anyway, i fill my bin by saturday morning and some old dude in a wood paneled station wagon comes and steals the cans the day of pickup.

bbqjones wrote:

l to r, my marriage, bbqjones

Your wife has nice cans.