The Fraud of Recycling
Don't let good trash go to waste!
Are you paper or plastic? Or only trash?
There was a time, starting in the early 1990s, when I assiduously collected waste for recycling.
It was clear 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 friends and family companies, as is usually the case in “democracies,” where corruption usually hides in plain sight, but I didn’t mind that, either, as long as the environment would be 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 refuse indiscriminately into the container on its plateau. I even asked the driver about it and I was told 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, wasting taxpayer’s money and another trick to emphasize “environmental consciousness,” which is serving as a pillar for Agenda 2030’s “zero-carbon” objective, which, along with artificially-generated “public health emergencies” is about to be used for taking full control over people’s lives.
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 for the subjects and Technocracy for the rulers who probably don’t even breathe the same air as the despicable masses. One day, as in the 2006 movie, perhaps something valuable will be unearthed as a result of the Big Trash Avalanche.
Strangely enough, the technology exists to apply pressure to plastics and regain the oil they have been made from.
Recycling was one thing I never bought into. I always seemed to be able to see it for BS. on this topic.
I wish I had recognized earlier the parallels it shares with other government sponsored corruption.
Thanks for another great read.