Do you recycle?

[JS80]

Recycling uses more energy than creating new.

 

[SmoochyTX]

No.

And where's the poll?

 

[Xyclone]

Originally posted by: JS80
Recycling uses more energy than creating new.

:roll:

Recycling is not for creating energy, it's for reusing materials. Whether it's to save paper/trees, or to keep plastic out of the landfills, you should recycle. Ignorant people who throw out ridiculous justifications for their actions make me sick. :thumbsdown:

 

[TallBill]

NO

 

[JS80]

Originally posted by: Xyclone

Originally posted by: JS80
Recycling uses more energy than creating new.

:roll:

Recycling is not for creating energy, it's for reusing materials. Whether it's to save paper/trees, or to keep plastic out of the landfills, you should recycle. Ignorant people who throw out ridiculous justifications for their actions make me sick. :thumbsdown:

But but but GLOBAL WARMING!! You have to cut manmade greenhouse gases! And trees don't grow back! Tree farms are corporate propaganda! We can't cut trees omg!!!

 

[Descartes]

Originally posted by: Xyclone

Originally posted by: JS80
Recycling uses more energy than creating new.

:roll:

Recycling is not for creating energy, it's for reusing materials. Whether it's to save paper/trees, or to keep plastic out of the landfills, you should recycle. Ignorant people who throw out ridiculous justifications for their actions make me sick. :thumbsdown:

You're entirely missing the point, but I'm not sure I want to delve into that argument. You can start here if you want. It's not such a clean-cut argument as you like to think. Ideas get perpetuated so long that people tend to assume they're fact without actually ever thinking about it.

 

[Skeeedunt]

As much as is reasonably easy. Which is most of it I guess.

 

[fleshconsumed]

Yes because recycled garbage is picked free here, we spend one third of the money on garbage now than we used to before recycling.

 

[mercanucaribe]

Originally posted by: JS80

Originally posted by: Xyclone

Originally posted by: JS80
Recycling uses more energy than creating new.

:roll:

Recycling is not for creating energy, it's for reusing materials. Whether it's to save paper/trees, or to keep plastic out of the landfills, you should recycle. Ignorant people who throw out ridiculous justifications for their actions make me sick. :thumbsdown:

But but but GLOBAL WARMING!! You have to cut manmade greenhouse gases! And trees don't grow back! Tree farms are corporate propaganda! We can't cut trees omg!!!

Recycling uses LESS ENERGY. The nonsense about recycling using more energy is a myth created by special interests.

 

[engineereeyore]

Mostly just paper and plastic. Don't drink too many drinks out of cans.

 

[mercanucaribe]

Originally posted by: Descartes

Originally posted by: Xyclone

Originally posted by: JS80
Recycling uses more energy than creating new.

:roll:

Recycling is not for creating energy, it's for reusing materials. Whether it's to save paper/trees, or to keep plastic out of the landfills, you should recycle. Ignorant people who throw out ridiculous justifications for their actions make me sick. :thumbsdown:

You're entirely missing the point, but I'm not sure I want to delve into that argument. You can start here if you want. It's not such a clean-cut argument as you like to think. Ideas get perpetuated so long that people tend to assume they're fact without actually ever thinking about it.

Trees are renewable, but what about nonrenewable resources
such as fossil fuel? Here, too, there is no reason to fear that we will
run out. At least three times in the twentieth century, the U.S. Department
of the Interior (or its predecessor, the Bureau of Mines)
predicted that America would run out of petroleum within 15 years
or less (Simon 1996, 165). It didn?t happen. Indeed, as we continue
to use more oil, the standard measures of proven oil reserves get
larger, not smaller.

Very credible source!

 

[preCRT]

Yes, town has mandatory recycling.


Plus I compost food scraps and papers [newspaper, non-glossy junk mail & office paper]

 

[elmro]

Yes - it is NYC law and trust me they are hardcore about it - they go through your garbage.

 

[Fulcrum]

Yes.

 

[Squisher]

Yes, the wife has even taken to using reusable canvas bags when she goes grocery shopping.

 

[zerocool1]

i just learned something today...it takes 1000 years for the average plastic bag to decompose. and there is a 95% drop in plastic bag use at ikea in the UK after it started charging $.10 per bag. FYI: this was in the 16 Apr 2007 issue of Time in the UK.

what if the US moved to a similar model? Remember plastics are made from petroleum.

 

[zerocool1]

Originally posted by: DaWhim
hell no. it cost more to recycle than producing a new one. recycling does not make economics sense.

did you know that the energy saved from recycling an aluminum can power a tv for 30 min to an hour? granted it takes energy to reprocess the recycled materials into raw material but it does not have to be mined from outside the US and transported here. Transportation is a huge cost when it comes to consumer products.

 

[keeleysam]

The ONLY things I ever recycle are metals and glass.

Other than that, it's horribly inefficient, I actually wrote a 32 page paper on it once.

If it becomes more efficient, I'll do it for other things.

 

[ForumMaster]

yup. although not that often for money. in israel, almost every plastic or glass bottle/container can be returned for a bit of money. problem is that the places for returning the items aren't eveywhere so we don't go there all the time. however, in every town by law, there are recycle bins for plastic containers at the very least. so ofcourse we do that. the rest of the items, we stockpile and then whenever we go to an area that allows you to return the items, we do.