devilman wrote:
Grim... wrote:
Is recycling paper actually good for the environment?
The pro's are obvious - if we recycle paper, we don't need to cut down trees to make paper. Great.
But the con's - the impact of the lorries needed to collect the paper, the amount of energy actually recycling the paper takes and the fact that no new trees are grown to make paper from could actually outweigh the benefits of recycling the paper in the first place.
I imagine that's why the councils that collect stuff for recycling collect paper, bottles, cans etc in one hit to make it a little more worthwhile - whether it still makes financial sense to recycle them at all I don't know but I suppose it's better than the alternative of not recycling stuff and it having to be dumped?
Not that it matters as the buggers didn't bother collecting my stuff for recycling the other week.
Ours collect so few things for recycling it seems barely worth it. There are a billion and one plastics that they won't take as they will only, only only take clear plastic drinks bottles. That's it. No yoghurt pots or anything else.
When councils start recycling properly, then they can start getting scntimonious about people chucking out too much rubbish and not recycling enough. Until then, fuck off.*
A bloke from local government was on Today the other day, and the interviewer said something about people being annoyed at them only getting rubbish colelctions once a fortnight. He replied "no, they get their rubbish collected weekly. One week it's recyclable rubbish, the next it's non-recyclable. That's weekly collection". Tell that to the bags of decomposing food left for two weeks in their bins attracting rats, you twit.
*Actually, given that the majority of landfill is created by industry and business, why not have a go at them instead, you tossers.