SF mulling mandatory recycling

[jeffry22]

also you can't smash them up either as they have to be scanned by the machine to ensure that they aren't coming from out of state

Talk about inefficient! Around here there are certain places where you can drop off recyclables, I have seen people pull up in suv's and drop off a few plastic pieces that probably weigh maybe 3 ounces - and they think they are saving he planet.hno:

 

[JoeContrarian]

But it makes us feel good about ourselves for recycling and saving energy and the environment.:missingte

It's actually NOT funny because this feel good socialist horse shit costs people (esp the ones on the economic fringes) money -- LOTS of money.

Look at government regulation this way:

You have a list of a 100 things you want to buy. For every regulation or tax put into place, scratch off another item on your list.

For example, you want to buy a lawnmower. The price is $200. But wait, there's a govt regulation that MANDATES a safety guard on every lawnmower cause some idiot cut his toes off. This adds additional costs to the lawnmower. So now instead of paying $200 you know have to fork over $220 -- $20 of YOUR money you can't spend because some arrogant bureaucrat knows what's best for you.

And this but the tip of the iceberg -- a microcosm of what ails our economy, and why just about EVERYTHING (education, medicine) govt touches is rotting to the core and making the country go BANKRUPT.

"There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts."
-- President Ronald Reagan

The United States was founded on FREEDOM -- NOT European-style socialism.

And the loony left wonders why other emerging markets (China and India) are taking us to the woodshed? uke1:

 

[quantumleap]

recycling is a complete sham overall

its a lie to create jobs for no reason other than to have them

its another hidden "tax" on you and I

while many companies including big oil make more money off the lie

recycling for the most part is a complete waste of time and energy overall

only way for you to be "environmentally friendly" at a personal level is to stop consuming so much shit

I used to live in a city that started mandatory recycling of newspaper. "We'll do it to save the trees!" they said as people willingly gave their newspapers to the city.

I exposed it for the money-making opportunity for the city that it was by posting on message boards how the city leaders weren't concerned about the environment. You see, once paper prices went down the city abandoned mandatory newspaper recycling stating that it no longer made money for the city.