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Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda
ialso it wasn't just about money, they showed that due to the transportation and energy required to transform used material back into new stuff that recycling is WORSE for the environment. and how about the fact that 40% of all that stuff you recycle just goes into the same landfill as the rest of your garbage?
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Okay, are you guys really getting all this stuff from Penn and Teller?
I saw a Carrot Top special the other day, and he told me that recycling my bottles was a good thing. I don't know who to believe.
I find it hard to believe that transforming paper back into paper consumes more energy than transforming a tree ripped out of the middle of the forest into paper. If someone could please explain how that could be, I will be forever grateful.
As for the energy required to ship the material being more than it is for new stuff, well golly, that just doesn't make sense.
I don't know about bottles, but recycling metal (ie cans) was something people did long before 5 cent deposits or David Suzuki. They weren't collecting it to throw 40% of it in the garbage then and I'm pretty sure they aren't now.