Plastic recycling is a “dead-end street."
— John Stossel (@JohnStossel) December 12, 2024
That quote…unbelievably…is from @Greenpeace.
In my new video, we debunk the recycling religion. pic.twitter.com/loe7F7gS2L
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Start here…everything we have been told is a lie. It will be easier to stomach when and as the truth arrives.
Actually start 50years ago
Who can spot the six pointed star?
Recycling as it’s presently sold to the public is largely a scam. About the only aspect of the business that might be legit is cardboard, and aluminum beverage cans. Those actually do get heavily reused, from what I can discern. Plastics, on the other hand, are terrible. There are too many different types, they all get mixed together in the recycling stream (and are too time and labor intensive to properly segregate).
Plus, the supply of plastics to recycle far outstrips the demand for such material, since it is almost always cheaper to utilize virgin material. There should be a push to return to more glass and metal packaging for food products, and more cardboard than plastic for general retail packaging. But that won’t happen unless it is forced on the industries that use so much plastic. And I detest the thumb of government being placed in the scale.
I will say that steel is pretty well recycled on an industrial basis. I’m always taking in scrap, including steel, and while the price per pound isn’t great, they wouldn’t be paying anything for it if it wasn’t getting used somehow.
Glass too. Super reusable and far, far cheaper to remelt than start from scratch. Also sterile when remade, so FDA compliant for reuse, etc.
I do crush and save my own aluminum cans- take them in about twice a year and get on average about $70-80. But that benefits me, that’s my incentive.
As do I. And I also take in copper, brass, sheet and breakage aluminum, cast iron and lead. All of which puts money back in my pocket. But the larger point -- that there is an actual market for these metals to be recycled because I can actually be paid for turning them in as scrap -- is obvious. So too is the lack of a viable market for plastic recycling, as much of that material cannot even be given away, given the exclusions placed in most plastic recycling in terms of types not accepted at all.
Recycling cardboard on large enough scale might garner one some sort of payment, but I’m talking the sort of quantity that only comes from bailed corrugated on pallets. And I’m not even sure that is the case. I know major stores and warehouses bail and recycle cardboards but even if they give that material away, it is still better than paying for it’s disposal in the trash
Anyone ever consider corruption? Government entities like cities and states and municipalities pay companies to recycle trash. It’s quite lucrative. But often the companies don’t separate the trash. They don’t recycle. They put everything in the land fill. And pocket the extra money. The nature of politics is corruption.