Tag: Recycling

It has come to a point where environmentalists are asking people to please throw their plastic waste in the garbage where it can at least go to a landfill instead of ending up in the ocean. Why is it getting shipped off instead of recycled? Simple. It’s cheaper. It is even cheaper to ...

We have a colossal problem. Pandemonium. Plastic recycling is a big fat lie. Environmentalists even now say: Throw your plastic in the garbage not the recycle bin. A landfill is better than the ocean. A landfill is better than shipping it off. Don’t get me wrong. ...

Recycle, reuse, and recycle, often referred to as the 3Rs, have been ingrained into every US citizen’s mind since an early age. Especially in today’s urgent situation where the problem of climate change has intensified, the significance of the 3Rs is greater than ever. The government,...

t takes about $30,000 to send a single water bottle to space. With astronauts living on the International Space Station, it is incredibly costly to continue to provide them the resources that they need in order to both work and survive day-to-day in space. Due to the awfully high expenses of resu...

I spent most of 2021 driving around the United States living in my car. I stopped in Jackson, WY for the summer and picked up several part-time jobs. One of those jobs was on the sorting line of the municipal recycling center. On cardboard and plastic days I used a rake to fish contamin...

In 1977, residents of New Zealand discovered plastic littering their beaches. In response to the growing crisis, policymakers began discussing how to reduce the public’s growing dependence on plastic. Fearing new legislation might be detrimental to their industry, plastics manufac...

Proponents of collection action, let’s call them collectivists, believe that meaningful change is impossible on the individual scale. The dismal facts at the outset of this piece attest to this. Collectivists argue that voluntary actions that center around the individual, no matter t...