Recycling is just another business to make money and does fuck-all for the environment, which is exactly why they push it instead of Reusing (fix / repair) and Reducing (stop buying shit you don't need, ie that iphone every fucking year) since those actually work to some extent but that would mean they would be buying less useless shit.
Recycling is just another business to make money and does fuck-all for the environment, which is exactly why they push it instead of Reusing (fix / repair) and Reducing (stop buying shit you don't need, ie that iphone every fucking year) since those actually work to some extent but that would mean they would be buying less useless shit.
Nope, it is a net negative, although the companies paid by the govt to do it make money. See the following two articles by John Tierney:
Recycling is Garbage
The Perverse Panic over Plastic