Recycling
Recycling is an attempt to ease the rate at which we waste our limited natural resources. Many cities now have curbside recycling programs to reduce the number of landfills. Many states and cities now have mandatory recycling laws that require return -use or payment of container deposits on beverages. But the United States has no mandatory federal recycling law.
Cry Wolf Quotes
It is impossible to reach a mandated recycling level unless you take all the people in New York City, put them in prison, and force them to recycle.…I think the law is absurd.
[Recycling] neither conserve[s] scarce resources nor help[s] to protect the environment.
Journalists...did a remarkable job of creating the garbage crisis...Mandatory recycling programs aren't good for posterity. They offer mainly short-term benefits to a few groups -- politicians, public relations consultants, environmental organizations, waste-handling corporations -- while diverting money from genuine social and environmental problems.
Recycling may be the most wasteful activity in modern America: a waste of time and money, a waste of human and natural resources.
