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Originally Posted by Tyler
Recycling just seems like a huge waste of money and resources. Sure it makes you feel good about yourself, but it takes far more energy to recycle most products then to throw them in the landfill and the infrastructure required to support a city of 1.5M with curbside recycling seems exhorbitant.
"We made $200,000 in recycling this year!"
"Yes, but we spent $40M on the supporting infrastructure." etc.
I dunno, the Bull$hit episode Penn and Teller did sums my feelings up nicely
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I know what you're saying, but that's why the phrase is "reduce, reuse and recycle" in that order. Its much better to reduce than the other two, and still far better to reuse an item than recycle it. Recycling isn't supposed to be a great panacea to correct everything, its supposed to be the last choice.