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
A 5 cent bottle deposit program typically spends $500 for every ton of cans and bottles collected, which makes curbside recycling look like a bargain. States without mandatory deposits...have proven that the most efficient way to reduce litter is to hire cleanup crews.
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.
Recycling has become the most primitive form of materialism: the worship of materials.
