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I try to recycle metal (especially aluminum) and glass. The recycling of everything else is mostly a combination of virtue signaling and a jobs program.
by ryandvm 7y ago
I try to recycle metal (especially aluminum) and glass. The recycling of everything else is mostly a combination of virtue signaling and a jobs program.
- lotsofpulp 7y agoAlso, the waste caused by commuting in a 5 passenger vehicle by oneself every day, and living in a spacious home in a suburb and all the extra consumption simply living in a low density environment probably offsets all the recycling in a lifetime. Even funnier to think about all the separate recycling trucks driving around all the extra distances due to everyone having quarter acre lots.
- WkndTriathlete 7y agoYou forgot to subtract the human suffering inflicted onto introverted personalities being forced to live in high-density urban housing as well as the cost of a much higher infectious disease transmission rate, increased crime (more humans in close proximity = more conflict), and/or higher cost of building materials suitable for high-density human living and spaces or the cost of human lives when the low-bid contract builds said housing and it collapses. Seriously, every time I read a comment like this it's like Dr. Strangelove has walked off of Kubrick's set and into real life.