John Stossel, the Libertarian investigative journalist, has produced a new story about the myths of recycling, especially when it comes to plastic.

He points out that there are many cities in America that think they’re doing the morally right thing by banning plastic bags, which ends up backfiring in a number of ways.

He also notes that most of the green ‘religion’ that has become so common in America, is a product of the liberal media and that this has been going on for decades.

Science writer John Tierney debunked recycling claims years ago in a New York Times Magazine story, “Recycling Is Garbage.” It set a Times record for hate mail.

But what he wrote was true.

“It’s even more true today, the economics has gotten even worse,” says Tierney.

My city would save over $300 million a year if it stopped recycling. It would be smarter to just dump our garbage in landfills.

“Recycling is an industry that uses increasingly expensive labor to produce materials that are worth less and less,” says Tierney.

Because it’s not worth recycling here, much is shipped overseas to countries like Malaysia, here it’s just piled up — some of it from America. That pollutes even more. And what they don’t burn, they just dump in the ocean.

https://x.com/johnstossel/status/1867243766605828401?s=61&t=pr9sQbfDnRXI42Hsv2j5...

Meanwhile in Victoria - the Container Deposit Scheme

Whereby you drive your dirty car miles and miles just to get 10c for your stubby 

It cost more in fuel putting out more emissions than the trash is worth… what a joke 

https://cdsvic.org.au/?gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAAqb6Ez7wmccRtx5gD0L_XDRkrNKlu&gc...

There should be a recycling documentary named "What Is Ghana? The Great Recycling Con."

Each year, tons of clothing discarded in the West pour into Ghana - enough to clothe every Ghanaian citizen, head to foot, for a decade.

Of course, nearly all of it is dumped and piles up along the coast or becomes rolling hills of synthetic clothing waste outside townships and cities, that do not rot and ultimately poison the water and land.

Same thing in Thailand and a host of poor countries, where hills of  electronics are dumped - most of which is incinerated - leading to poisoning of the environment and the air.

MeisterEckhart wrote on Dec 16^th, 2024 at 10:45am:


Shhhh… the greens don’t want to talk about this .. its one giant con which is costing the TAX PAYER Billions of dollars…

Its like the Wind Towers - it takes more energy to produce the useless things than what it puts back in energy in its lifetime - and at times - they are only turning because of power being fed back into them… then after its short life its just toxic waste that no one wants

SerialBrain9 wrote on Dec 17^th, 2024 at 8:48am:

Who says?
'. In fact, most studies show that wind turbines produce more energy than it took to make them, with a carbon payback period of 5–12 months'