Recycling Myths

It makes sense to recycle some things. But the process of recycling most items that people currently engage in, actually wastes more resources than it saves.

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News & Politics

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• Recycling
• myths

[idontcare80]

70% of all the plastic bags that are recycled in the US end up as Trex.

[idontcare80]

ROFL!!! We have 18 years of landfill capacity left!!! WOW 18 years!!!! What the hell do we do after that??? By that time my son will be graduating HS, I guess it's his problem then? WTF is wrong with the people that made this video???

[KittenKoder]

An honest and balanced view on recycling.

[CoDfilms12]

all of you are retards. we have 1000 years worth of garbage in our landfills, and it takes more energy to recycle a bottle than to make a new one from scratch.

[idontcare80]

@cinndave Wow, 20 years??? That's amazing! So what does my son do when he's my age and there hasn't been any landfill capacity for 5 years?

[cinndave]

@idontcare80 That was several years ago. Today, we now have 20 years of landfill capacity left. More is being made. We're not running out. There are many pressing environmental problems these days. Trash isn't one of them.

[56243G]

@Bananafishmontreal

What ecosystem gets destroyed by making paper? Tree farms? Pulp trees are farmed. In my area fields of trees are grown right alongside corn and beans. Everyone thinks old growth forests are chopped down to make paper. What a joke!

[cinndave]

so to review.

bad to recycle:

paper

plastic

glass (depending on markets)

Good to recycle:

construction materials

batteries

any metals. Lead, copper, steel, you name it.

toxic waste or anything that cannot go in landfills

[Bananafishmontreal]

recycling paper may be less efficient than making new paper, but the fact that an ecosystem doesn't get destroyed in the process makes recycling a much better option.

[pizzahelper100]

SOMETIMES? u mean all the time except for aluminum cans