If you're not buying recycled products, you're not really recycling.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Not everything needs to be recycled.
I'm mad keen on recycling because I'm worried about the next generation and where all this waste we're producing is going. It has to stop. I wash out my plastic containers and recycle envelopes, everything I possibly can.
It makes a big difference to recycle. It makes a big difference to use recycled products. It makes a big difference to reuse things, to not use the paper cup - and each time you do, that's a victory.
I am in a constant cycle of selling my clothes at Wasteland and buying from Goodwill. Once or twice a year, I go through my closet and donate everything to Goodwill. It feels like I am recycling my fashion.
We live in a disposable society. It's easier to throw things out than to fix them. We even give it a name - we call it recycling.
My hobby of not attending meetings about recycling saves more energy than your hobby of recycling.
Recycling is an area where jobs could be created at low cost. Green collar workers. That's not very sexy.
Some trash is recycled, some is thrown away, some ends up where it shouldn't end up.
We don't need more recycling, we need a completely different system of closed-loop manufacturing, and no matter how many cans I crush, my personal actions at the consumer level are of very little importance in getting us there.
If you want grown-ups to recycle, just tell their kids the importance of recycling, and they'll be all over it.