Your Questions About Recycling

Which quote do you like the most?

I have to speak the “thought of the day” in school – Which one do you think i should choose?

# I laugh, I love, I hope, I try I hurt, I need, I fear, I cry. And I know you do the same things too, So we’re really not that different, me and you.

#The trouble with being punctual is that nobody’s there to appreciate it.

#Experience is that marvellous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

#Since light travels faster than sound, people appear bright until you hear them speak.

#One thing you can’t recycle is wasted time.

#Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs painting.

#I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they’d never expect it.

#Seven out of ten people suffer from hemmorhoids. Does this mean that the other three enjoy it.

thanks…^^

Hello, my fellow P&Sers! Which of these kind sentences do you like the most?

1.Be kinder than necessary because everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.
2.A sharp tongue can cut my own throat.
3.If I want my dreams to come true, I mustn’t oversleep.
4.Of all the things I wear, my expression is the most important.
5.The best vitamin for making friends….. B1.
6.The happiness of my life depends on the quality of my thoughts.
7.The heaviest thing I can carry is a grudge.
8. One thing I can give and still keep…is my word.
9. I lie the loudest when I lie to myself.
10. If I lack the courage to start, I have already finished.
One thing I can’t recycle is wasted time.
11. Ideas won’t work unless ‘ I ‘ do.
12. My mind is like a parachute…it functions only when open.
13. The 10 commandments are not a multiple choice.
14. The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a lifetime! It is never too late to become what I might have been.

Is it not about time we banned the production of waste rather than trying to dispose of it?

If the government is serious about preventing waste going to landfill why does it permit unsolicited mail to be delivered to people’s homes?
There has been much talk recently of householders being charged for the amount of waste they generate but no talk of reducing the amount of unsolicited waste being delivered to them. While fully supportting the principal of recycling I fail to understand why householders should pay a levy to allow them to dispose of materials they did not want in the first place. Would it not be better to tax the producers of waste rather than those receiving it?
Business is the source of most household waste with excessive packaging and advertising literature leading the way. A few days ago I received a copy of “Yellow Pages” which was not wanted and not removed from it’s plastic bag before I deposited it in the dustbin; what a waste!
When will businesses be forced to stop producing these vast quantities of unwanted rubbish?

Isn’t recycling really just pointless?

It wastes your time.

It wastes your money; trash disposal is cheaper.

It wastes the money of manufacturers who are forced to use recycled material.

It wastes the time of workers who could have otherwise been productively employed.

It does not significantly reduce the use of landfills, nor is there any shortage of space for them.

It does not significantly reduce the use of natural resources, nor is there any shortage of them.

It does not significantly reduce the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere, nor is there any reason to.*

It adds needless trucks on the street.

* The Great Global Warming Swindle http://anonym.to/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TqqWJugXzs

NY Times article says recycling is mostly a waste of money. Should 0bama have his Czar bring up charges?

… against NY Times editor?
This was based upon a study that says it pollutes the environment MORE when we recycle (sending garbage trucks around, etc)

How long have you been recycling your waste?

And what is your fun story about the first time you ever recycled?

When I was younger, there were always bags around the yard overflowing with our aluminum cans. For one reason or another, even if a recycling center was in easy reach of my parents…they just stopped caring. I’ve even tried to persuade them to start back up…with little or no success.

I started recycling my own waste about 2 1/2 years ago, not long after my city’s first recycling plant was finally built. I snagged one of their promotional bumper stickers, but still procrastinated…but then, I stuck it to my car. Even if I drove around advertising for GPS Recycle Now!, I still kept putting off the task of buying my extra garbage cans for the job.

But I put my sticker on the car to push myself into recycling…I figured that if I reminded myself that I have advertised for something good to do, but wish not to be a hypocrite, I’d better get crackin’. Then, I bought my supplies, started recycling, and I have never stopped. I recycle EVERYTHING, religiously, and that’s the way I like it.

How’d it happen with you?

Why do people recycle?

People waste so much time recycling and I can’t understand why. The only recyclable materials that are actually worth recycling, companies are actually willing to pay you for (aluminium & steel). The rest actually do the opposite of what you’re trying to accomplish through recycling, it takes more energy & creates more pollution (the refining process) and costs an enormous amout of money (taxpayer money) and manpower to refine these products.
The 1st story that I read to address this issue stated that “Recycling may be the most wasteful activity in modern America” printed in the New York Times in 1996. America has no shortage of landfills, and the current landfill regulations are very environmentally friendly and are the most cost effective way of disposing of waste.
There is no shortage of trees available in the US the number of trees in our forest has actually increased in the last 50 years according to Jerry Taylor, director of natural resources at the Cato Institute.
I love some of these answers! Incredibly funny.
With the exception of the aluminium & steel recyclers, has anyone noticed that all of the research that supports recycling is done by or supported by persons or groups who have a financial interest in recycling.

Are we wasting out time trying to recycle and save the planet?

http://www.greatgarbagepatch.org/

I am not by any means an eco-warrior but I try to do my bit as I imagine many other people do too.

I just came across this report and reading it has made me very worried indeed.

Did anyone else know of this??
I have to add that this report says that no one is doing anything about this!! I am horrified to think that this toxic soup undoubtedly will eventually get into the food chain and no one knows what that will result in.

We only have to remember what most of us saw happened to children in Corby when pregnant women were exposed to drinking contaminated water.

It seems to me, as some answerers have already said the answers lie with action coming from governments and corporate bodies to take action now. We as individuals can not solve what happens to our waste, recycled or not.

Is this a good argument for *not* recycling paper?

I work at a rural public high school. I proposed starting a program to recycle paper, since we waste an egregious amount of it here. (Let me give you an example: Suppose you want to make a copy of a 100-page document and want to print on both sides of the paper. You forgot to change this setting on the copier, so when your copy comes out, you just toss all 100 pages. This happens many, many times a day.) One of my colleagues dismissed the idea as a waste of time, citing the fact that “trees are a renewable resource.” I didn’t have a good rejoinder, but I can’t help but think that her perspective is shallow.

So is this really a good argument? Even if trees really are renewable, aren’t there other good reasons for recycling paper as opposed to just dumping it?