Everybody feels good about recycling. Right? Well, not all of us. I have long suspected what Penn and Teller have exposed here.
The LGF page I linked to has a language warning. This means you, mom.
For those who don’t want to hear the bad words, the bad news is:
Recycling has a net cost of $8 billion annually – just in tax dollars.
It costs about three times as much to recycle as to just dump it in a landfill.
It doesn’t save trees.
It uses more energy than making the products new.
It pollutes the environment.
There is one exception: Aluminum. That’s why bums with stolen shopping carts go through garbage cans looking for aluminum cans. The day recycling actually makes sense, those bums will be taking your plastic bottles, too.
So the bottom line is that the only reason to recycle is because it makes you feel good. Which it won’t, once you know the truth. And assuming you’re not a moonbat.
