Recycling is bad
For the past seven or so years a huge message sweeping the nation has been recycle, recycle, and recycle. Many people say that it will help with another huge issue, global warming. They also say that it will also save money, but they are wrong. Recycling is not the amazing thing that everyone is talking about. When people do not recycle they save money, they pollute less, and when someone does recycle they are not really doing anything.
When people do not recycle they save money. This is proven by this quote from Pro/Con: Should the U.S Scrap the Recycling Program, “Paper mills pay for the trees they process … That means it’s more expensive and takes more energy and water to recycle old paper then to cut down and process pine …show more content…
Modern incinerators … release so few pollutants that they’ve been widely accepted in… Northern Europe and Japan for generating clean energy” (Tierneyoct 3). This is saying that the process of decomposing paper, metals, and other recyclables is actually putting methane into the air. So while they are trying to make the world greener by recycling they are actually polluting themselves. This also says that landfill owners have found a way to make energy out of Methane, saving money and lessening the need for burning fossil fuels that release a lot of position into the air. Some people would say that are landfills are starting to fill up, but they are wrong, this is shown by this quote from The Reign of Recycling, “In reporting the 1996 article I found that all of the trash generated by Americans for the next 1000 years would fit on one tenth of 1 percent of land available for grazing” (Tierneycot 2). This means that we are nowhere near “running out of space” because if Americans produce the same amount of trash as they do now many, many years later, then, only in one million years would we run out of room. Also by then there is going to be a better way to deal with our …show more content…
This is mostly self-explanatory, all it is saying is that the common person that takes their recycling every week out to the curb is doing almost nothing. Most people would say that every little bit counts, but to put this into perspective, there is a quote from The Reign of Recycling, “To offset the greenhouse impact of one passenger’s round-trip flight between New York and London, you’d have to recycle roughly 40,000 plastic bottles assuming you fly coach, if you sit in business- or first- class … it could be more like 100,000” (Tierneycot 2). Trips like this one are being made all of the time plus even longer ones such as the middle of the U.S. to somewhere in
For the past seven or so years a huge message sweeping the nation has been recycle, recycle, and recycle. Many people say that it will help with another huge issue, global warming. They also say that it will also save money, but they are wrong. Recycling is not the amazing thing that everyone is talking about. When people do not recycle they save money, they pollute less, and when someone does recycle they are not really doing anything.
When people do not recycle they save money. This is proven by this quote from Pro/Con: Should the U.S Scrap the Recycling Program, “Paper mills pay for the trees they process … That means it’s more expensive and takes more energy and water to recycle old paper then to cut down and process pine …show more content…
Modern incinerators … release so few pollutants that they’ve been widely accepted in… Northern Europe and Japan for generating clean energy” (Tierneyoct 3). This is saying that the process of decomposing paper, metals, and other recyclables is actually putting methane into the air. So while they are trying to make the world greener by recycling they are actually polluting themselves. This also says that landfill owners have found a way to make energy out of Methane, saving money and lessening the need for burning fossil fuels that release a lot of position into the air. Some people would say that are landfills are starting to fill up, but they are wrong, this is shown by this quote from The Reign of Recycling, “In reporting the 1996 article I found that all of the trash generated by Americans for the next 1000 years would fit on one tenth of 1 percent of land available for grazing” (Tierneycot 2). This means that we are nowhere near “running out of space” because if Americans produce the same amount of trash as they do now many, many years later, then, only in one million years would we run out of room. Also by then there is going to be a better way to deal with our …show more content…
This is mostly self-explanatory, all it is saying is that the common person that takes their recycling every week out to the curb is doing almost nothing. Most people would say that every little bit counts, but to put this into perspective, there is a quote from The Reign of Recycling, “To offset the greenhouse impact of one passenger’s round-trip flight between New York and London, you’d have to recycle roughly 40,000 plastic bottles assuming you fly coach, if you sit in business- or first- class … it could be more like 100,000” (Tierneycot 2). Trips like this one are being made all of the time plus even longer ones such as the middle of the U.S. to somewhere in