[Caged Great]

I just watched a documentary on Recycling, and it turns out that recycling paper and plastic is actually bad for the environment.

The paper mills plant two trees for every one that they cut down, therefore if you are using less paper, less trees are needed to be planted. In addition, it's also bad for the environment due to the fact the holding costs, fuel costs to move the stuff, shredding it, removing ink, etc.

Recycling plastic and glass unfortunately are much in the same boat, they can't really make much stuff out of it and other than the road paint, all the products are inferior than if they made it from scratch, and it's also harder on the environement for the same reason as the paper.

Also, 40% of what's recycled goes to landfills anyway because they have no need for the excess material.

The only thing that's good is Aluminium cans, just because it's actually cost effective, and easier on the environment.

That's why they have a deposit for cans.

All in all, recycling cost the Americans 8 billion dollars last year (and about the same every year).


Ps, I've been recycling for years, but I will stop recycling paper starting today.