Recycling Reality? I saw an episode of Penn and Teller%26#039;s BS (on Showtime) claiming that recycling plastic bottles actually harms the environment.

They said that using separate trucks to collect recyclables creates more pollution, and costs local governments more.

They also said that the US has enough landfil space to last 1,000 more years, and that the recycling movement was created after a big misunderstanding about a trash barge.

As a loyal recycler, I am devastated.

Anyone?

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10 months ago

Here%26#039;s a link to a review.

And the video is all over You tube.

http://wasteage.com/mag/waste_bullshit/ Edward Mugits

http://p2library.nfesc.navy.mil/P2_Oppor...

I%26#039;m not sure they would be a reliable source of advice on recycling. It%26#039;s like asking Al Gore%26#039;s opinion about a magic trick.

Recycling turns an old used bottle/something else into new one by using energy from water, solar and nuclear electrostations. If there is no recycling, you pollute ground with waste and you turns all the materials firstly in things and then in the waste. Earlier or later, everything would be turned in the waste and you would have to start recycling. Its the only way of continuously life on Earth --- spending renewable and solar energy on 100% recycling of waste.

most people in citys and burbs think there is no space... get in ur car and drive for 20 hours...plenty off space. but NIMBY.plastic is very stable in a landfill.its paper and organic materals that cause water polution... it takes oil to make new plastic so recycleing is worth it...keep recyclin...in my town for 10 years we saved glass only to find out they were putting it in the fill...accualty costs 50 dollars a ton to get rid of it...

Yeah, they%26#039;re lying or maybe yes seperate trucks do cause pollution, but not that much. U.S. may have that much landfill space, but who cares? NOW I AM MAD AT THEM FOR CLAIMING THAT RECYCLING IS AN ACCIDENT!!!!!!!!!!!! NOT TRUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!