h/t really enraged
Sultan Knish: The huge dirty secret of recycling was also one of the world’s worst polluters.
Every branch of government from Washington D.C. to your local town council had spent a fortune convincing people that recycling is a magical process that turns your old pizza boxes into new pizza boxes while creating those imaginary “green jobs” in the community. The reality was a lot dirtier.
All of America’s industries, including trash sorting, had been outsourced to China.
And recycling is just a fancy lefty way of saying “trash.” All that recycling, which children in progressive communities are taught to sort as the closest thing to a religious ritual, was really being dumped by the ton on dirty ships and sent over to China. We weren’t recycling it. The Chinese were.
But now China is banning foreign recycling because it’s bad for the environment.
Even the Communists got tired of sorting through the trash of American socialists. The recycling scam shipped garbage on dirty ships for dirty industries while pretending that they’re clean and green.
There was never anything clean about it. And only the money it brought in was green. more here
Which China received and promptly dumped into the sea.
Well now we know what they used as the fill dirt for all of those man-made islands in the South China Sea.
Which is why the feds and big bidness have been willing to spread their buttcheeks for the chinese
The government making it illegal to not “hire” their campaign contributors? And the “businesses” agreeing to lie about what they do? For a cut, but just a cut, of the cash? Why.. that sounds downright U.N.-American.
So… ban plastic straws!
Once I asked my daughter, why she had ton of plastic bags under her sink. Which is where everyone stores their plastic bags. She then said she was reclycling.
I said no, what she was doing was hoarding.
She Immediately stopped.
Thanks
A packaging company here in North Maine bales up their scraps from trimming, misprints and overages.
One of the chemicals in the paper is not allowed here in the recycled paper business, so it is shipped by truck to NJ where it is transferred to a container which is loaded on a rail car and shipped to California, where it is loaded onto a ship bound for China where it is recycled into paper that is sent back to us.
Ten thousand years from now, archeologists will exhume our land fills and marvel that we had not yet discovered fire.