VOTE NO ON CURBSIDE RECYCLING
Curbside recycling is coming up for a vote and I’m damn afraid it’s going to pass. It is a waste of our taxpayer money, our municipal time, and resources in general.
If it creates cash for Norman, why do we have to pay for it? And what makes you so sure that it will remain the cost it says it will remain? It won’t. It’ll only increase. Recycling does not pay for itself. And no social program has ever been as cheap as expected.
If you want to make money off recycling, save up your aluminum cans and take them to a recycler and get paid for it. If you want to pay to waste more resources, vote for curbside recycling.
All the numbers being put out for you to contemplate how great recycling is… they’re put out by the recyclers themselves. Why are these numbers not subject to any scrutiny? Numbers don’t lie, but the asshole calculating them sure can.
And if you think those so-called jobs they're creating are desirable, we might as well just pay people to crawl around in our waste for our amusement. At least it only wastes money and not additional resources, because all these jobs do is pay people shit to pick through our shit in order so that John Q. Recycler can feel better (like he's saving the environment!). I'm all in favor of creating new jobs, but Norman is not a community that needs these jobs.
There’s no point in me explaining things such as the fact paper is made with wood from sustainably-managed tree farms and that paper is a biodegradable, renewable resource. That glass comes from sand and the world is never going to run out of sand. And what do you recycle glass into? Inferior, more expensive glass. And while 100,000,000 plastic grocery bags will be thrown away this year, nobody wants to talk about how you can’t recycle them through our curbside recycling program; only hard plastic can be recycled.
And how are paper, glass, and plastic damaging our environment? They’re not. What’s damaging our environment is lead, mercury, and other heavy metals and toxic chemicals that cannot be recycled curbside. Yet, nobody is talking about those. We’re too focused on saving the world from… non-toxic consumer packaging.
If the road to hell is indeed paved with good intentions, we have been ensured a damn smooth ride there.
I personally believe in capitalism and science, and plasma-arc gasification and other methods will become feasible to address our waste management needs. The nice thing about landfills is that we can always dig up all our waste and re-dispose of it if plasma arc gasification becomes viable. Perhaps we should stop recycling and put our time, money, and resources into finding methods to disintegrate our waste and turn it into energy.
Reason cannot appeal to these campaigns that market themselves to make people think they're making the world a better place.
If it creates cash for Norman, why do we have to pay for it? And what makes you so sure that it will remain the cost it says it will remain? It won’t. It’ll only increase. Recycling does not pay for itself. And no social program has ever been as cheap as expected.
If you want to make money off recycling, save up your aluminum cans and take them to a recycler and get paid for it. If you want to pay to waste more resources, vote for curbside recycling.
All the numbers being put out for you to contemplate how great recycling is… they’re put out by the recyclers themselves. Why are these numbers not subject to any scrutiny? Numbers don’t lie, but the asshole calculating them sure can.
And if you think those so-called jobs they're creating are desirable, we might as well just pay people to crawl around in our waste for our amusement. At least it only wastes money and not additional resources, because all these jobs do is pay people shit to pick through our shit in order so that John Q. Recycler can feel better (like he's saving the environment!). I'm all in favor of creating new jobs, but Norman is not a community that needs these jobs.
There’s no point in me explaining things such as the fact paper is made with wood from sustainably-managed tree farms and that paper is a biodegradable, renewable resource. That glass comes from sand and the world is never going to run out of sand. And what do you recycle glass into? Inferior, more expensive glass. And while 100,000,000 plastic grocery bags will be thrown away this year, nobody wants to talk about how you can’t recycle them through our curbside recycling program; only hard plastic can be recycled.
And how are paper, glass, and plastic damaging our environment? They’re not. What’s damaging our environment is lead, mercury, and other heavy metals and toxic chemicals that cannot be recycled curbside. Yet, nobody is talking about those. We’re too focused on saving the world from… non-toxic consumer packaging.
If the road to hell is indeed paved with good intentions, we have been ensured a damn smooth ride there.
I personally believe in capitalism and science, and plasma-arc gasification and other methods will become feasible to address our waste management needs. The nice thing about landfills is that we can always dig up all our waste and re-dispose of it if plasma arc gasification becomes viable. Perhaps we should stop recycling and put our time, money, and resources into finding methods to disintegrate our waste and turn it into energy.
Reason cannot appeal to these campaigns that market themselves to make people think they're making the world a better place.