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Originally Posted by Khrushchev's Other Shoe a) Is there a crisis? That is, how long before the mountains of crap to which you refer are an issue? Is this something we should be worried about within the next ten years? The next one hundred years? The next one thousand years? The next one million years? Does anyone here have any analysis to this point? |
This is similar to saying that a Asteroid is on a collision course with Earth and has 23 years before impact, it could miss, but then again it might hit us, but the problem is it is coming from behind the Sun and we can't tell exactly one way or the other until it gets very close. Do we wait 10 of the 23 years to find the definite answer?
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b) Does the solution (mandatory recycling) solve the problem? That is, does it make the mountains of crap appear later, or sooner? Is it the most cost effective solution? If not, then the cost (in time, effort, and money) of recycling could be reallocated to uses with greater environmental impact.
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Practice Makes Perfect. Just like everything else, recycling is something that is going to half to be refined and manipulated until it works, but if you don't try how can you get any better? The first time you tied your shoe, were you being efficient? The answer is no, but you got better with practice didn't you?
I agree that there is a lack of study and analysis in the effects of recycling, there is a quote that says "The worst things imaginable have been done with the best intentions" which is very true, but so many great things have been done with the best intentions as well. This is something that needs to be tried, and utilized until it is known if it is indeed a non efficient way of dealing with our waste from my point of view.