Revolver: So, you’re one of those climate nuts, convinced that barbecues, straws, and cows are wreaking havoc on the planet. You faithfully recycle heaps of plastic, thinking you’re doing a solid favor for Mother Earth. Each night, you hit the hay feeling pretty good about yourself, believing you’re making a big difference. Nice thought, right? Sadly, it’s far from the truth. In reality, you’re actually adding to the problem, thanks to a lack of critical thinking and a failure to question the motives behind big government and corporate narratives. The truth is, plastic recycling is a big, fat lie—total garbage (yes, pun intended).
Climate nuts aren’t saving the planet; they’re actually making things worse. Many are so stuck in their echo chambers that they don’t even realize the damage they’re unleashing. It’s all about “feeling good” for them; they don’t really care what the facts and real-life results are.
Here’s what John Stossel had to say about his disturbing findings regarding the plastic recycling scam:
OK, PET PEEVE TIME
I’M IN SAN DIEGO AND THE GARBAGE TRUCKS DESTROY OUR BINS WITH THEIR HANDLING AND THE BINS DON’T LAST
THE BINS SAY “PROPERTY OF CITY OF SAN DIEGO”..I SURE AS HELL DON’T OWN THEM
GOT A NOTICE ON MY BLUE RECYCLING BIN SAYING THAT THEY WILL NO LONGER PICK IT UP DUE TO UNSAFE CONDITION
$250 TO REPLACE???
HAVEN’T USED THE BLUE BIN SINCE (2YRS??), ALL RECYCLE SHIT GOES TO THE BLACK BIN FOR LANDFILL
FUCK IT, JUST DOING MY PART
STICK THOSE GREEN WEENIES UP YOUR ASS
BENITO
That’s bull shit. They replace the for free in my county. After all, they own them. For now at least.
The mob makes lots of money from ‘recycling’.
Commercially, Up here, I watch the Garbage truck Tilt the recycling in the hopper first and then the Regular garbage into the exact same compacting truck.
Miller, GFL, & WMG – all the same shit
Fucking scam. Same shit at ABC where if the was ONE staple or pink sheet of paper in a bundle the whole thing was tossed and charged.
Our recycling man was nothing but a thief and a thug, but of course they hired him for the work… so who is in the wrong? Everybody is in the wrong. ABC gets some kind of kickback for being green faggots, and the recycler is a multi-millionaire for playing some shit game.
We once put a couple of tons of batteries in the hydraulic lift (decom’ed an old inverter bank) and the recycling clown was rubbing his hands and grinning like a shit-eating dog. I was disgusted at the short-sightedness of our ABC clown who ran disposal.
(we had on-air disposal, and all-others disposal, and the on-air cats did it correctly and auctioned the junk for tax purposes)
Hey, did Stossel ever get his carry permit in NYC?
My son and daughter-in-law spend hours cleaning up this plastic crap out of their farm field. These environmental idiots say the plastic is eco but plastics have destroyed our farm and livelihood. Time to wake up that these California tree huggers have inadvertently destroyed our planet earth.
A tiny, tiny step in the right direction here in Sarasota County. In addition to household waste we had two recycle bins. One was for paper products including cardboard, the other for metal, glass, and plastic. They found that separating the two classes of (non-)recyclables bought them absolutely nothing, so now we throw it all together into a single large wheelie bin. But even that’s stupid.
The only sorta-kinda recycling we do here that makes sense is separate pickup for yard waste. If it grew outdoors, it gets composted, and the resulting compost is actually used the way it’s supposed to be used.
If I were starting out as a young man now, I think I’d give computers/tech a pass and build a career on garbage. The garbage guys all seem to have big shiny new pickups and big boats.
Some things are GREAT for recycling – plastic waters bottles (PETE #1) for instance. Fiberfill for clothing, carpeting, etc. are all great second uses. Making parking bumpers, forever park benches, etc. are great uses for some other plastics. Beyond that, food contamination, FDA restrictions, and the like, make all the rest pointless. Much like energy sources, some work in some places and others in other. Pretending that ONE SIZE FITS ALL is insane for all of it. BE HONEST. We can take it. Fuck the folks who continue to want to pretend. Plastics are GREAT. They keep stuff dry, they keep stuff sterile, etc. If need be, landfill them or burn them for energy. That’s reality and we need to deal with it…as do the parasites that benefit from government mandates, protectionism, and LIES.
I have one word for you.
The Graduate
THURSDAY, 11 APRIL 2024, 0:00 AT 12:00 AM
“I have one word for you.”
Seduce?
That’s OK. I use fewer garbage bags and somebody is provided jobs picking up my recycle bin and hauling the crap away.
@Benito, Brad:
Klaus Schwab: You’ll own nothing, other than a recycling bin, and be happy
Cynic
Lol. That is very profound
I only “recycle” when I need to throw away a lot of stuff that can’t fit in the main trash bin. It’s basically extra space to throw stuff away the garbage company gives for free. Once around Christmas when guests are squatting, and once when we do spring cleaning to throw away all the Christmas gifts. Less so now the kids are older.
@ecp: I put everything I can in the recycling bin, knowing it’s a scam. I figure I might as well make the idiots job harder. After watching Stossel’s video I now know the grocery bags get stuck, and I have a new evil idea.
Cynic: Good idea, maybe I’ll just get the smallest garbage can available (literally small enough to hold only 1.5 kitchen bags), save a few bucks, and get the largest recycle can available. It wasn’t possible with our old garbage company that would literally dig thru my can and if there were banned items they would leave the can full with a nastygram on the lid. This new company don’t GAF.
ECP: If someone was going through my recycling can, I’d do my best to make it as unpleasant as possible. Somewhere they sell spray that smells so bad you want to puke. Make sure the can contains only approved items and spray the stuff to make it completely wretched. The person would be so convinced there are banned items, they would rummage through the whole can looking for it, exposing themselves to the smell just that much more.
I can be diabolical at times.
I’m an avid re-cycler – everything goes into the burn-barrel and rendered into its constituent parts (metals, not so much).
mortem tyrannis
izlamo delenda est …
We have recycle bins. The city hired a new company years ago and delivered garbage and recycle bins to every home.
Here it’s all virtue signaling because we have a trash to energy plant.
We could have one bin and lots of energy.
I once told a Liberal Karen whose head could explode at any minute in the slightest disagreement that NO PLASTIC actually gets recycled where we live and they’re doing it to make you feel good (whereas, the paper and glass were). ALL the plastic went to the landfill.
Her head exploded and she wouldn’t talk to me any more. Mission complete.
Tim, time to perfect the art (and Science!) of burning aluminum cans in a campfire.
My stupid city council decided to raise fees on garbage haulers, and of course, that was passed on to the citizens by the haulers, resulting in a large increase in trash/recycling prices, to point that I would be paying 50% more for both services. I called my garbage hauler and asked what could be done to reduce my cost. They immediately said I should get rid of the recycling service, which thankfully is not required by law here yet. I did so, and now only have to drag one bin to the street, which is 400 feet away from my house. And my cost has gone back to almost what it was nine years ago.
The garbage company gets to keep my half my business, but they only have to send one truck and pay one city fee instead of two now. And we—the garbage hauler and I—are both dealing with trash realistically, instead of indulging the recycling fantasy. But if the city or state decides to clamp down hard—and they will, eventually—I am going to cancel my trash service completely and deposit my trash in small batches in the the many fine trash cans provided at most public places. We compost and run a low consumption household, so we don’t generate much trash anyway. My dad has been doing this for twenty years.
By the way, in my neighborhood, I have noticed a marked reduction in the number of recycling bins at the curb on trash day. It looks like a good number of my neighbors have some sense and are thrifty. So go ahead and play whack-a-mole with us, you fee-catcher enviro-socialists. We will beat you when and where we can. There are more than enough fools out there to keep your coffers filled without bothering us. But if they ever wake up, you’ve got a problem.
I have two cans one for regular garbage, one for recycle BS, no matter what you put in the recycle can, nothing ever comes back and no one says anything. Also I live near the RR and every few days I see 5 or 6 open freight cars full of garbage coming from Boston headed west. Who gets that and where is it dumped? Or buried?
I recycle all my plastic bags into containers for my garbage.
I remember when every home in the suburbs had a trash burner in the backyard. Global temperatures weren’t rising then, either.
*** Back then burning trash caused global cooling, acid rain, starving children in Africa or some other nonsense.
Anonymous, my grandmother burned trash behind her garage in Towson, MD for decades. She wasn’t the only one, either. And this was in a neighborhood by a golf course lol. My son has a car that leaks oil, and he’s busy with school so he can’t fix it right now. I put a sheet of cardboard under it, and when it’s soaked with oil, I roll it up and burn it in my outdoor fireplace. It goes up quick and dirty, gone before you know it. I know it’s bad, but I have plenty of carbon offsets lol.
Some military aircraft fuel tanks contain plastic, open-cell foam blocks to suppress fires created by tracer rounds. The foam is changed out every couple years. Dried foam blocks cannot go into the dumpster. No siree Bob. They have to be crammed into barrels and handled as hazardous waste, and that ain’t cheap. The contractor who processes the barrels takes the foam out of the barrels and sells the barrels right back to the government. The contractor then throws the dried foam blocks into his dumpster, where it’s hauled to the very same landfill it would have gone to if not processed in the first place.
Deplorable Second Class, in the summer our town sends out recycling monitors who will put stickers on your recycle bin if it has unapproved items in it.
Don’t leftists love being tyrants?
@Thirdtwin:
Please be sure that the public bin isn’t handled by a private business. Always do what I do and use trash containers at govt locations. The county library’s dumpster isn’t readily observable and is a great place for larger items. 👌
Plastic burns. Fire can generate electricity. Win! Win!
My long gone Grandpa would wrangle my help to rake leaves in Autumn, heap them into a pile where children and his dogs would play and when they were broken down he’d scoop the leaves into a wired cage and set them on fire . After burning the leaves he’d spread the ashes over his little veggie plot. For me it was an introduction to organic gardening and it was a cozy feeling around that little fire on a raw and chilly day .