I have been designing recycling systems for most of the past decade, among other projects, and you are at most partially correct.
A. Define recycling because you if you are talking about material recovery, like scrap wood being turned to saw dust or solvent recovery from a cleaning process, we do this all the time. Why the heck wouldn’t you pull a chemical out of your waste stream that you want to use again?
B. Sure a lot of ewaste goes overseas your cans and bottles aren’t. And even then they do process it. I know. I have been to the facilities that do it in South East Asia.
C. Household recycling can be a lot more effective if the government was not working with the worst fucking assholes in the world. I quite literally have two versions of multiple designs. 1 the government gets and the good one for private sector. The government folder is labeled “for idiots”.
Whenever I hear people ranting against recycling I just mentally picturing a heavy smoker drinking pop and whining about the salad they ate six months ago hasn’t kicked in yet.
I’m not ranting against recycling, I am pointing out that the whole “personal responsibility” for the environment, carbon footprint and the push to recycling as a panacea was a propaganda campaign by oil companies.
I have been designing recycling systems for most of the past decade, among other projects, and you are at most partially correct.
A. Define recycling because you if you are talking about material recovery, like scrap wood being turned to saw dust or solvent recovery from a cleaning process, we do this all the time. Why the heck wouldn’t you pull a chemical out of your waste stream that you want to use again?
B. Sure a lot of ewaste goes overseas your cans and bottles aren’t. And even then they do process it. I know. I have been to the facilities that do it in South East Asia.
C. Household recycling can be a lot more effective if the government was not working with the worst fucking assholes in the world. I quite literally have two versions of multiple designs. 1 the government gets and the good one for private sector. The government folder is labeled “for idiots”.
Whenever I hear people ranting against recycling I just mentally picturing a heavy smoker drinking pop and whining about the salad they ate six months ago hasn’t kicked in yet.
I’m not ranting against recycling, I am pointing out that the whole “personal responsibility” for the environment, carbon footprint and the push to recycling as a panacea was a propaganda campaign by oil companies.
https://www.businessinsider.com/fossil-fuel-companies-spend-millions-to-promote-individual-responsibility-2021-3?op=1
While it was a few years ago this is a great example of glass not getting recycled: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-08-07/recycling-companies-forced-to-stockpile-glass-industry-crisis/8778088
Gotcha.