Recycling is an Expensive, Wasteful, and Unnecessary SCAM!

But don't merely take my word for it! The great John Stossel reveals the truth behind recycling in the video below. In short, as RedState puts it,

Does recycling work? Sure! On aluminum, cardboard, and glass... but that's about it. Everything else we're "recycling," especially plastics, isn't actually being recycled in ways that are saving the planet. In fact, every time plastic is recycled, it becomes less and less usable.

“Recycling is an industry that uses increasingly expensive labor to produce materials that are worth less and less,” says John Tierney, author of the New York Times Magazine story "Recycling Is Garbage." 

Stossel points out that landfills actually are the better alternative and environmentally safer, thanks to measures taken to make sure they don't leak...This makes the idea that we're running out of space to dump our garbage more sensationalist nonsense than fact.

“If you think of the United States as a football field,” says Tierney, “all the garbage that we will generate in the next 1,000 years would fit inside a tiny fraction of the one-inch line.”

Moreover, if we stopped recycling plastic, the savings we'd have would blow your mind. Stossel says that in his own town, $340 million would be saved a year if the recycling stopped.

The full video is only about seven minutes: 

 

Trevor Grant Thomas
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