Recycling...

[Gwendl]

I heard a report the other day (and sorry I don't have the link as it was on TV) that said that basically a lot of recycling takes more resources to recycle the products then it does not to. This surprised me a bit. Now I realize that it's probably different resources. For instance, it takes power to recycle paper, but it does save more trees from being cut down in great numbers, raising our CO2 levels.

The other thing that bothers me about recycling is why I am charged to do it. The city makes the money off all the stuff they pick up and sell to the recycler place and yet I'm paying for them to do it, besides actually doing the work for them. You'd think if they cared so much about the environment, they wouldn't charge to encourage one to do it.

[lihen]

if something is not paid, people don't even think to participate in it, it's human nature....
But think of Govt. and NGOs which pay these people for what they are doing, because they know that it is important. We have a very less amount of resources all around the world, we should conserve it, no matter what cost is to be paid to other people to make this happen

[online.education]

Recycling is necessary, but the way it's done today has so many problems. For example, over 50% of recycled computers are shipped to China. Computer parts are stacked up, and laborers just take them apart, sort them out and recycle. But they are just dumped on the ground. After it rains, rain turns toxic and gets absorbed into the ground. As a result, the soil and ground water are totally contaminated. They used to be able to drink water; now, they can't.