To Recycle or Not to Recycle
I was having a debate with my friend last night about the benefits of the recycling program in NYC. His argument was that recycling is inefficient and is more costly than regular waste disposal, therefore it is not necessary or even helpful to recycle. This made me feel the need to dredge up my lecture material from my Environmental Health Sciences course of last semester. What we learned is that while it is true that recycling is burdensome and expensive, there is simply no room left in landfills for more waste. Therefore, it is actually imperative to decrease the amount of waste being produced, recycling being a feasible method involving both the municipality and the consumer. For more information, use the following links:
http://www.ejnet.org/landfills/
www.recycle.net
And don't forget to recycle your toilet paper!
posted by LizeCR @ 11:55 PM
2 Comments:
Recycling IS inefficient. What we should do is hoard trash for, let's say, 5 years in a junkyard, then tie it all together and strap an H-bomb onto the whole thing, dump it in the middle of the Atlantic, detonate and Presto! No more trash.
Well, treatment of disposed waste is one method of dealing with the solid waste issue, but I think an H-bomb would be overkill.
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