Why is recycling bad?
So there I was, on the toilet at work. We have a fine restroom, with beautiful stainless steel sinks, track lighting and jazz music piped in from above. It’s really nice. When I reached over for some toilet paper, I found that this company, like so many others, uses that horrible recycled paper that’s less than easy on the buttocks. This brought to mind something I’ve known for a long time. Paper recycling is bad. It’s not just bad for your butt, when you look at the toilet paper and see bits of cardboard stuck in the white sheets. It’s not all about the substandard paper you’re running through your printer. Paper recycling is bad for the economy, and bad for the environment. Most people believe what they’ve been told. They believe that recycling paper is a good thing. Stacking up those newspapers and taking them to the recycling center is supposed to help society by reducing waste, saving trees, and making a more economical product in the end. The problem is, it really does none of th
Recycling is not necessarily bad, but it isn’t really that effective for materials like plastic or glass. The cost of transporting these recyclable goods(think about the ever-rising gas prices) and the process of making them into a reusable good is so expensive, and the limitations of what we can make with them doesn’t in the end make it worth it for what the end result is. Aluminum on the other hand is cheap to transport, cheap to process, and can be used to create things completely made out of recycled material, like an aluminum can. Until transportation cost goes down (which will not be in our lifetime) and the technology to process plastics or glass advances, we are stuck “pretending” we are recycling. Of course though, it is still much better for the environment for you to put a “recyclable” material in some kind of receptacle than throwing it on the ground.
Recycling isnt !00% good or bad because it helps save natural resources such as plastic. For example if you use canvas bags every time you go to the super market you will save plastic which is mad out of unrenewable resources. But when they burn garbage to make energy like electricity they release harmful cabon-dioxide into the air.
