Why don Americans do recycling – paper/glass/cans/plastic etc.?
I am sure it was “totally normal” wherever you are at some point in times as well. Also, I am sure that not everyone in you are recycles everything. You will always run into people who do not care about it. The U.S. is behind the rest of the world in its recycling habits. But, large strides have been made to catch up. You see major cities passing mandates to become sustainable, which include major recycling programs. The more these facitlites are available, and the more cities start charging for actual wast pick up the more you will see individuals utilize their local recycling center.
It depends on where you visit, I live in CA and recycling is pretty normal, but I’ve heard areas like New Orleans don’t have any type of recycle program. We also have several areas which use a Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) where all the garbage is sorted and the recyclable materials are pulled from the waste stream. Truth is we need to improve all programs as well as personal awareness.
It has nothing to do with laziness. The nearest recycling facility in my area is about 40-50 miles north and the garbage pickup doesn’t offer recycling. We basically put it all in one bin and this has always been normal since I was born. The thing we do recycle however are aluminum cans which can be sold to a local junk yard for about 60 cents a pound.
Americans arent taken for fools by their governments and local councils. Here in England we are forced under threat of fines to do the councils job for them, ie store and sort rubbish over 2 week cycles.Tehn the bin trucks come and collect it,empty it all in the same pile then transport it at great cost to Wales to go on a landfill. Of course,thats after the counicls have sold all the scrap metals on and not offset the revenue against our council taxes. We shouldnt be blaming the Americans for not being a part of the same government lies and spin that we are.I’m sure they wouldnt tolerate such a dictatorial government that is clearly fleecing us with one stealth tax after another after they brainwashed a gullible population into compliance. Then here we are,taking the moral highground of American people just because we are fool enough to swallow the New Labour spin and they arent. Blair and Brown have got us just where they want us.
The truth is that even if you throw all your trash into the same ben it gets separated at the dump, When trash trucks take and empty your trash it goes on a conveyor belt and their is a line of people that seperate anything that can possibly be used by recycling so its not that people don’t care its that they keep up with new technologies and find that keeping people employed at the dump is their way of being a great American. Thanks for asking with much love signed The Libertarian.
