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I am very skeptical about recycling (I do recycle though) - it seems like a tremendous about of CO2 is spent just moving the recycled goods from homes to the re
by javiramos 10y ago
I am very skeptical about recycling (I do recycle though) - it seems like a tremendous about of CO2 is spent just moving the recycled goods from homes to the recycling facilities + the energy spent recycling the product + the energy used shipping the product to a plastics distributor. The option of filling our landfills is also costly but is it offset by recycling?
Does anyone know how recycled plastics stack up against new plastic once you consider the energy used in the entire recycling chain?
- chr1 10y agoIt's not only about CO2, burning plastics produces other harmful compounds, and without burning they stay for very long.
- digler999 10y ago> I am very skeptical about recycling I am too. I really despise that they push the burden onto the customer, instead of hiring people or robots to pick bottles or other shit out of the trash stream and recycle it. As a homeowner, I'm paying them for trash service. If there's a cleaner way (recycling - which isn't necessarily any greener, as you pointed out) , the waste management industry should be forced to do it for the greater good, just like coal plants are forced to run their exhaust through scrubbers to remove pollutants. They shouldn't profit, or burn millions more gallons of diesel driving huge recycling trucks around, by forcing (or guilting) us to do unpaid labor.