Recycling is an area where jobs could be created at low cost. Green collar workers. That's not very sexy.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If you're not buying recycled products, you're not really recycling.
Not everything needs to be recycled.
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.
It's like recycling: selling old clothes to help make new ones.
My hobby of not attending meetings about recycling saves more energy than your hobby of recycling.
We were in recycling before recycling was cool.
Many people still believe that 'green' solutions are too expensive, but they are actually much cheaper when all of the costs to public health, social services, and waste handling are factored into the same equation.
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.
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.
If you want grown-ups to recycle, just tell their kids the importance of recycling, and they'll be all over it.