(Untitled)

[sexinstilettoz]

I heard the other day that all these bottles and cans that we "recycle" actually don't get recycled and instead get tossed back and forth between different companies, or end up getting dumped into the ocean and/or other countries due to the fact that recycling costs tons of money to do. Does anyone have any information or articles on this or can

Comments

[stainedfeathers]

Actually, I was referring to the people I personally know and have met that believe this. And they ARE too lazy to recycle and use this as an excuse/validation for their not recycling. There are some environmentalist types out there who don't recycle on the basis you speak of, but a lot of people who are not environmentalists, but your everyday Joe Somebody who doesn't much care about environmental issues but wants to do the "right thing" tends to use this excuse to not recycle. They also tend to use the excuse that it "doesn't actually do any good anyway" and "who cares?" (If you can't tell, I've heard way too many BS arguments. I start to want to smack people after hearing this drivel so often. I also tend not to know alot of environmentalists because of where I live, a highly conservative don't give a damn kinda city, so I may hear this side alot more than you do depending on where you are.)

And plastics are a whole different beast than metals or paper. They are difficult and inefficient to recycle- they can only be recycled once or twice before they're essentially worthless material. And with all the different types and chemicals it can be hard and harmful -to- recycle them if you can recycle them at all (in my city only #1 and 2's can be recycled). If there is any truth to this rumor it would be with plastics, but not with cans or paper or whatever and that's simply due to the nature of plastics.