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Originally Posted by bigoldalphamale
recycling is the approximate equivalent of a complete and total waste of time. pump the same dollars spent in recycling into R&D and develop more environmentally friendly packaging. wrappers made of material that completely breaks down in a landfill within a few weeks. bottles/containers that can be burned away without toxic emission. recycling was a start in the right direction and raised awareness of how we are destroying our environment, but the actual act of recycling is useless, on any scale.
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On the contrary, big...
a) If we just discovered more "friendly" materials to throw away or burn, we still have to use finite resources to keep making them over and over again. That's like saying alt. fuel vehicles are useless, just make engines that burn less petro. Well, that's great for now... but we still use it faster than dinosaurs turn into oil.
b) Recycling metals (steel, aluminum, copper) are almost a requirements... these are also very finite in their quantity.
c) Recycling other products, especially plastics and paper, cut down a lot. The small cost out of pocket is worth it in the long run. I'd be willing for federal income tax (which is useless anyways) to go up 0.25% so that they recycled everything that they could. *shrug* Why not?