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Anonymous01/23/26, 23:06No.16897702Recyling is just rerubbishing
Recently found out that many recyclables are just dumped in general landfill anyway. Those which aren't are usually made into some second grade material which immediately goes back out into the environment and can not be recycled again.
Meanwhile we have three different trucks bumping up our street on different days to collect general waste and the recyclables, spewing out diesel fumes everywhere.
Then I look at the mind blowing amount of rubbish that countries like India and China just burn, bury, or dump into the rivers which are carried out into the world's oceans.
And I think what the fuck is the point of this? Given absolute power I would just simply tax the ever loving fuck out of all unnecessary packaging, plastics, and crap, so people would only buy those products as a last resort. Or just ban it full stop.
Anyway I recently got a black mark from the council becasue some lowlife put a recyclable plastic drink bottle in my general waste wheelie bin. Two more black marks and I get a fine. Great, now I have to put out my wheelie bin at the last possible minute before the truck comes.
Look, fuck this bullshit. Separating and having to put out three different bins on three different days is a pain. I didn't mind doing it but now I just cant be fucked. I waste my precious time while Chang and Pajeet carelessly dump a thousand million times more crap into the oceans every day.
I thought about my black mark and concluded that the council must occasionally inspect the contents of my bins. Well fuck. Lets see, minimum wage council workers doing a filthy job will only do the bare minimum and only pick out the cleanest and easiest errors. Okay, so now I put ALL my plastics, glass, paper, and cans into the bottom of the general waste rubbish bags ( which are plastic, lol ). Then I urinate in it and add cat's poo. Tie it off and into the bin it goes to ferment until collection. Can't see those council workers wanting to sort through that. Fuck it all.
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Anon01/24/26, 00:50No.16897760
You only have three trucks per week?
We have five. Three different companies pick up green waste. Another one does the recycling bins. Two companies deal with general waste. Then if you have anything outside of those, like concrete and treated timber you need to get a skip or take it yourself to the landfill.
Recycling is dumb meme thought up by dumb Karens for validation points. Makes me laugh to see all the dumb assholes religious put out their kerb collections like Jesus come to cleanse the temple. Bins full of shit they didn't need or which could have used reusable containers. Then they hop in their gas guzzlers ( usually only one person per vehicle ), idle in the driveway for ten minutes and make a dozen trips around town doing dumb shit and buying dumb shit ( with packaging inside more packaging ). Then they come home, mow their urban deserts down to a fraction of inch, plant their exotic gardens, and feed kitty who is still hungry after killing another native bird. Then they eat dinner consisting of packaged food grown on soil so badly degraded it would produce nothing without copious inputs.
Then they go on plebbit and virtue signal about the environment. Honestly I wish climate change would happen fast enough to wipe these stupid monkeys out.
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Anon01/24/26, 06:19No.16897922
Most of recycling is just a sop. There are much more efficient systems available which would reduce most of the waste before its even created. But the problem is these alternatives are not so convenient to consumers, are more time intensive or cost more. People just want the cheapest easiest option and dont want to think past what they leave out on the street. Current recycling strategy is just a nod to the weekend environmentalists and so the normies can feel good about themselves
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Anon01/24/26, 06:24No.16897925
It's to keep the economy going. Entire infrastructures and tens of thousands of jobs exist to shuttle plastic trash around before handing it off to a chinese "recycler" to dump in the pacific ocean.
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Anon01/24/26, 06:44No.16897936
>I recently got a black mark from the council becasue some lowlife put a recyclable plastic drink bottle in my general waste wheelie bin. Two more black marks and I get a fine.
Mandatory recycling programs like that are dumb as shit.Here's something that California surprisingly has the right idea on, it's called CRV:
>additional fee tacked on to all recyclable drink containers
>depends on the size and material used*
>*in practice, it's just 5 cents for most containers, 10 for larger ones.
>you may deposit these containers at your local recycling center and receive that money back as compensationRecycling remains optional. You don't have some government geek sifting through your trash looking for a reason to fine you. But there is still incentive to recycle. Hell, you can recycle other people's trash which has become a source of revenue for the homeless.Perhaps numbers and implementation can be adjusted but it's actually not a terrible idea in theory.Ofc this is ignoring all the other issues with recycling mentioned in your post. The response I would give to that is "any level of reusability is still a net benefit even if it still ends up in the landfill later on."
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Anon01/24/26, 15:46No.16898189
Greta approves
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Anon01/24/26, 21:50No.16898444
it makes liberals feed good. do not question it, or they will act up. and that could result in A CIVIL WAR!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_gwxZuUoguU
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Anon01/25/26, 03:45No.16898678
Recycling is a pain and really doesn't achieve much once you account for all the inputs needed. OP brings up a good point about all the trucks needed.
Other than the time and inconvenience my biggest gripe is the space required. Living in a small apartment I dont have space to keep separate bins for each recyclable class. I dont actually consume that much in the way of products so it may take months to a year to actually fill a bin. So what I do is just fill up one bag with all the different shit, go for a walk to the park and dump it in one of the park rubbish bins.
The park bins are always full of pizza boxes, burger wrappers, dog poo bags, plastic drink bottles, and few glass bottles. Stuffed every day. A park guy told me it all goes to landfill because its often full of shit like used needles, empty drug bags, and lots of dog poo. They are emptied every day.
Our park has 8 bins. One bin is about what I produce in 3 months, so I dont feel bad about doing this.
Fuck anyone who says "every little bit counts". What a retarded cope. How about just stop consuming so much crap instead?
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Anon01/25/26, 05:18No.16898719
Its magnitudes of insignificance.
Its an insignificant percentage of the world population making an insignificant effort to achieve an insignificant return on a marginal activity.
Meanwhile everyday another wetland gets drained, another container ship of Chinese crap arrives in port, another billion people make another pointless trip in their car, another million economic migrants arrive to push up demand for more housing developments.
Its like burning a candle under a terracotta pot to save electricity and thinking you are saving the planet, lol. It would be comedic but that's actually how the retards think. Nah mate, we are fucked. The world is full of ignorant selfish retards led by greedy retarded cunts. Nothing short of a J curve is going to save this place. Hopefully that will happen sooner rather than later.
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Anon01/25/26, 05:28No.16898727
It's probably made from oil; when energy resources end, it would make the whole situation void anyway.
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Anon01/25/26, 06:52No.16898758
Even if that's true, and it's probably not, it's a useful way to get people to stay mindful of the garbage they're generating
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Anon01/26/26, 15:51No.16899659
Recycling is counter productive. Its lets people think they are doing something useful rather than address the larger problem.
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Anon01/28/26, 00:27No.16900473
Dont you know that all those plastic wrappers you put out in the bin are going to make up for everything else! Are you stupid? EVERY LITTLE BIT COUNTS! Now keep on absorbing those microplastics and shut up!
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Anon01/28/26, 00:31No.16900475
recycling is mostly just political theater; the point is to LOOK like you're doing something, not actually to do anything.
The only form of recycling that's actually worth the effort is non-ferrous metal recycling. The rest of it is bullshit
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Anon01/28/26, 11:11No.16900684
>And I think what the fuck is the point of this
Some rich mf is getting richer off it, and your neighboring Karen gets an excuse for believing that she's better than everyone around her.>Given absolute power I would just simply tax the ever loving fuck out of all unnecessary packaging, plastics, and crap
With absolute power come absolute tapes of you having sex with female minors, held by people who don't want you tax the shit out of their business.>Two more black marks and I get a fine.
None of those is a law, you can tell HOA/township council/etc to pound sand and absolutely get away with it if you didn't sign any papers obliging you to swallow their cum. If you did then you can only blame yourself.
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Anon01/28/26, 15:49No.16900772
No it isn't retard. Cardboard and aluminum should be recycled. Aluminum should be recycled so beer is cheaper. Cardboard should be recycled so your amazon purchases are cheaper. Glass recycling is sort of a meme. Plastic doesn't recycle.