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If idea of recycling is to reduce waste and increase efficiency 100X quicker, it could be done at the beginning of the line where profits are concerned.
There have been so many products I have bought that are only slightly different so that you can't use the parts from the previous product.
Lets take printers for example.
The only difference between the old brand and newest is a tab on the toner that prevents you from using it on the newer model printer
This gets repeated over and over and translates into a lot of waste and inefficiencies.
The educated know modern landfills are lined and the leachate treated.
What percent of the population do you think actually knows that? And that was my point. There are an awfully lot of people who just say "go ahead and dump wherever there is space". And, it's not that easy.
What percent of American landfills are actually lined in a relatively fool-proof manner?
I'm sure there are City Ordinances, but in areas where there is no city ordinance landfills generally prohibit removing any discarded items- do you disagree with that?
People recycle because it assuages the guilt they feel about the destruction their modern consumerist lifestyle causes to the world. That's the only reason.
An opinion piece is not facts. If you or anyone else is going to convince me that recycling is actually harmful for the environment, then you need to provide FACTS, not someone's opinion.
I got a link from another poster, and most of that is not convincing. There is one point made that I am going to look further in to, that may very well prove convincing, but I'm going to make sure that I get unbiased/no agenda driven "facts" before I agree to anything. The piece did have a link, and that link is rather impressive with what they discovered, but it's one source, and who knows what the full story is.
Opinion pieces are not facts, and should never be used as "evidence" that something is or isn't.
Even if its expensive, somehow it help protect our environment, preventing some environmental issue that our earth is suffering now.
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