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Americans are consuming more and more stuff. Now that other countries won’t take our papers and plastics, they’re ending up in the trash.
After decades of earnest public-information campaigns, Americans are finally recycling. Airports, malls, schools, and office buildings across the country have bins for plastic bottles and aluminum cans and newspapers. In some cities, you can be fined if inspectors discover that you haven’t recycled appropriately.
Once China changed their policy last year, that was basically the beginning of the end to recycling being worth it in the US. Now it's going to cost huge amounts to resort all the recyclables here in the US for other countries to even accept the stuff and with not that many companies in the US wanting the stuff to use in manufacturing (there are some) most of it is just going to go into the landfill, oh well, it was nice while it lasted!
Every day USPS brings to me reams of junk mail, delivered by a gas powered truck. It all goes into recycling, and then is trucked back out by a diesel powered truck. My mailman once explained to me that they get paid to deliver the junk mail.
I thought maybe this would be changed under the Obama admin, since he claimed to care about global warming, but no. Maybe President Inslee or O'Rourke would change it; they are running big-time on climate change. I bet they won't, though.
My mailman once explained to me that they get paid to deliver the junk mail.
This. Exactly this.
The post office takes money to deliver mail. Those stamps you see on the upper right hand corner of the letter (or in the case of bulk mail, just delivering from a specific address), actually costs money. Alarming once you realize that the post office collects money for delivering mail.
If anything should be recycled, it's plastic. The stuff is toxic and does not break down in a timely manner like other materials. It will linger in the environment for a thousand years after we are gone, probably more. It's terrible that we use plastic for packaging and bottles, which are used once and thrown away generally. Very wasteful.
My mailman once explained to me that they get paid to deliver the junk mail.
I have no issues with you people that are so wealthy that you don't have to even think about what has to go into mailing a letter. But I am very concerned about you being so out of the loop with reality that you don't know that the post office gets paid by collecting postage fees.
You should visit a post office and learn how to mail a letter. They are generally very helpful to the ignorant
If anything should be recycled, it's plastic. The stuff is toxic and does not break down in a timely manner like other materials. It will linger in the environment for a thousand years after we are gone, probably more. It's terrible that we use plastic for packaging and bottles, which are used once and thrown away generally. Very wasteful.
A problem easily alleviated - not completely solved, but definitely improved - by pushing for hemp production.
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