Should We Recycle?

From the time when you were a small child, you were probably taught the virtues of recycling: paper, plastic, aluminum; you did your part to save the Earth. But a growing number of voices are concerned that recycling may harm the environment by expending more resources than simple trash. Before you decide whether to toss that plastic bottle in the blue bin, what should you consider?

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Recycling Incentives, Such as Bottle Bills, Work

- From California Department of Conservation

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Does not work in Calif.

If the recycle bottles and cans were taken back where you bought them it might work. The idiots at California Department of Conservation didn't think to jam that down the retailers throat like they did the refund charge down ours. Recycle centers are hard to go to and full of dopers that dig in dumpsters to get drug money. I have a 10 yr old daughter that I will not let go to one of these centers.I would like to teach her to recycle but not at that cost. I don't even like to go there.
Make the sellers of these products take them back and it just might work. We do that with batteries, printer cases, auto parts and many other products. Or is someone getting a payoff from retailers to keep the laws like they are? Cal government is full of payoffs.

- purelabor September 26, 2008 12:10AM

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