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Originally Posted by Mleeja
Nice rant, but if everyone had been following the reasoning, the for change The Villages makes sense. Recycle processors in China were the main destination for the US’s recycling products. China quit taking product from the US or accepted the product and dumped it in the ocean. Because there was/is no market for recycling our recycling was ending up in a landfill. Not much good going on with that. Just more mountains of trash in central Florida or Georgia.
At least with the trash to energy program the volume is being greatly reduced and electricity is being generated. Is it perfect? No, but is a damn site better than our trash going directly into a land fill. I understand that this process can and will remove metal which will then be recycled.
Some churches are still accepting newspaper, magazines, and paper. Publix is still accepting Styrofoam and plastic bags. There are ways to continue to recycle. And as with other posters, look for way to reduce your usage.
The one thing I haven’t seen anyone suggesting is we return to the days of reusable milk jugs, beer bottles, soda bottles, etc. Why, it cost a lot more and no one is willing to pay the price!
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I definitely agree with most of that. Reusing all, or most glass seems very logical. Remember gram always reminding me to "set out the wood crate that held the milk bottles and the cream bottle". She'd put a note on it with what to leave in place of the empties. But I suppose the cost of serializing them was high, etc. Don't think people today would ever consider most things, but.... perhaps the huge, thick, laundry detergent containers we used could be reused or refilled ? It just seems so much easier to NOT do all this doesn't it.