(Re)Cycle of life: We want to believe
We love to recycle. We feel soooo virtuous recycling and saving the planet– even when it doesn't make economic (or perhaps even environmental) sense. Consider:
– At the Ivy Landfill, glass bottles dutifully collected by trying-to-be-helpful citizens lie in a heap waiting to be crushed and used as a substitute for gravel in roads at the site. The bottom has dropped out of the glass market, and even road-fill is preferable to just straight-out burying it.
– Charlottesville citizens can now add cardboard and plastic to their curbside recycling bins. Cardboard is a moneymaker, but you have to pay to get rid of plastic, so the city coughs up $1,800 a month to have those two-liter Coke bottles hauled away– in the name of environmental stewardship.
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