Inspector Posted January 18, 2007 Report Share Posted January 18, 2007 Notice how P&T show that recycling aluminum is actually more beneficial than throwing it in the garbage because it has more value than the other products. Just in case you missed it and denounced all recycling. Note also how they said that this was the only form of recycling that existed on a free market. Yet despite that fact, many of us must pay for the "privilidge" of having government-sponsored flunkies take our aluminum. The fact is that "recycling" in today's context means "government recycling." And that is BS, no matter how you swing it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seeker Posted January 18, 2007 Report Share Posted January 18, 2007 Personally I take pride in helping fill the landfills as much as I can. Filling them up is what they're there for, so I'm glad to do my bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidV Posted January 18, 2007 Report Share Posted January 18, 2007 Random thought: Throwing things away in landfills can be seen as a form of long-term recycling that is arguably superior for resource preservation than recycling itself. Landfills are basically huge reservoirs of semi-processed raw materials. The only thing stopping us from mining them is the relatively cheap cost of extracting materials from scratch and the high cost of processing used ones. If we really are going to run short of resources, that will change - and technology improvements are bound to make it much cheaper. So recycling is a way of preserving resources for our successors, whereas reusing subjects them to the possibility of permanent destruction. Try that on an envirofreak. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott_Connery Posted January 18, 2007 Report Share Posted January 18, 2007 Worrying about landfill space is absurd. First off, no one outside of the northeast or southern California could possibly think there wasn't an almost inifinite amount of free space in the country. Secondly, there are all sorts of parks, golf courses, and housing districts on top of old landfills, so it isn't like the space is unusable once it is full of trash. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inspector Posted January 18, 2007 Report Share Posted January 18, 2007 Worrying about landfill space is absurd. First off, no one outside of the northeast or southern California could possibly think there wasn't an almost inifinite amount of free space in the country. Secondly, there are all sorts of parks, golf courses, and housing districts on top of old landfills, so it isn't like the space is unusable once it is full of trash. Good point. I wonder how many of these overcrowding wonks have actually driven across the USA to see how huge it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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