Never Let Good Trash Go To Waste!
The fraud of recycling.
A self-sustaining city from the future!
Today, CHD published an article on recycling, which reminded me of the relevance of my old article from June 16, 2021.
Here is a link to CHD’s article:
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/plastic-recycling-impossible-cola
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There was a time, starting in the early 1990s, when I assiduously collected waste for recycling.
It was clear to me that recycling could work only if subsidized by the taxpayer, but I didn’t mind.
It was also clear that such subsidies would only be allotted to the politicians’ friends and family companies, as is usually the case in “democracies,” where corruption hides in plain sight, but I didn’t mind that, either, as long as the environment would be at least somewhat protected.
It happened in the late 1990s, when I encountered the first alerting sign, when I noticed a recycling truck simply dumping all the carefully-separated materials indiscriminately into the container on its plateau. I asked the driver about it and he said that everything would be re-sorted at the recycling plant. That already raised a red flag, but I put it down to corruption that inserted a useless link into the process that was paying off for a certain party for a kickback to the officials who had drawn up the contract.
It took me several more years to realize the mechanism behind the scenes.
About a decade later, I bumped into relevant statistics.
A whole world collapsed in me, when I added up and compared the figures of plastics dumped and the amount of plastics in the oceans. The two figures were so close that the process of recycling suggested little else than another example of corruption, a waste of the taxpayer’s time and money.
It didn’t take long to conjecture that recycling is another ruse most of the time, with an efficiency below 10% even at places, where it is “taken seriously.”*
Welcome to the Brave New World of Idiocracy! One day, as in the 2006 movie, perhaps something valuable will be unearthed as a result of the Big Garbage Avalanche:
* Theoretically, it is possible to turn plastic into oil (plastic originates from the oil industry). Is it not cost-effective? Maybe:
https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/making-fuel-from-dirty-plastic
Is it another ruse to collect the taxpayer’s money, while the technology is blocked by Big Oil?
https://www.oil-price.net/en/articles/making-oil-from-plastic.php
Another thing that the movement brought forth is using fuel to compost off site and then fraudulently resale the compost as organic, while creating huge waste pits that no longer turn over biologically.
I also got sucked into the job of separating recyclables into three baskets to leave at the curb, only to find them retrieved by one truck. I eventually gave them their baskets back. I did continue to compost for my garden. A few years ago, when we were sick and tired of the spraying of "biosolids" on land too close to our primary river and ocean; we mobilized our community to find a solution. We found Dr. Richard Honour who had come up with an ingenious method for a way to address the core issue. The wheels of change grind exceedingly slowly, but eventually we will arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. (These systems are expensive to build).