COMMENTARY: Time to recycle recycling?

Ie always felt the recycle scam, built on the lie of the garbage scow from NYC, is typical of environmental mythmakers. But, as mentioned, instead of one smoke belching garbage truck rumbling around the neighborhood at 5 a.m., we now have TWO, sometimes coming right after each other, belching smoke. This is good for our lungs?? Unintended consequences raise their ugly heads once again.

In Maryland, they must have put the wrong people in charge of recycling as they do not even collect white paper and brown paper which are the only ones worth recycling. Instead they waste time and energy collecting newspaper, probably owing to newspaper clout, and they even collect magazines which, the last I heard, are too difficult to recycle and are counterproductive unless we burn them as fuel as do mass-burn units such as Baltimore, Norfolk and Montgomery County.

Re-cycling is such great fun. Why it just makes liberals tingle all over with PRIDE that THEY are 'making a difference' in their never-ending battle against evil mankind; you know, those who eat children, throw perfectly good trash in the landfills and do other inconsiderate stuff like that. I just don't understand why you evil spoil sports want to stop them from having their fun. Besides, since SCOTUS has pretty much ruled that the present U S Government is an illegal enterprise, I'm sure these liberal nannies will soon get the courts to further decree that the Constitution needs to be re-cycled as well; replaced with one that will properly establish a FREE Socialist Police State. Then you 'deniers' will get to freely re-cycle, or else.... By the way, I understand the plan is for the first re-education camps for 'evils' who refuse to recycle to be set up in northern Michigan, just east of Marquette, using recyclable paper tents for housing and open ditches for sewage operations; much more efficient than wasting our precious water to flush and all that.

ALCOA saves 95% of energy costs by processing recycled aluminum versus raw materials. Check out their website, why believe me when you can see the truth for yourself. Tell us how saving money on energy and raw material costs for aluminum is a bad idea? Seems like good business rather than a scam. Aluminum can be endlessly recycled and does not degrade as paper does. It is fair to say that not all recycling is equal, as noted in the opinion piece, some commodities do not have a market as aluminum does. My view is that recycling makes sense when we save money. Recycling is not a virtue if it causes more pollution, energy usage or market for the outputs -- then it's a waste.