hahahah i was talkin about the industry. and i dont recycle "good" because we have a societal collective ideology of consumerism here in the united states. at least the corporations that push there trash to us do. why do i need 6 wraps of plastic and a cardboard box to by anything? why dont they just sell me the product? most things i buy are wrapped with a bunch of useless trash. theres money in it for the recycling industry.
the industry is flawed, and we do get too much "trash" with our products, and there is money in it for the industry, but if done on a large scale, the benefits outweigh the negatives.
i forcibly recycle. my city makes me by forcing me to buy special bags that are more than a dollar apiece to motivate me to not fill them up so quickly. the program costs me a lot more money than i think it should, but over the years, i've come to realize just how much of my trash is recyclable. literally more than half a typical trash bag is stuff that doesn't need to go to the dump. the last figure was that the city recycles over 60% of its trash. yeah, the trucks belch clouds of filth, and so don't most of the plants, but so doesn't everything else. recycling isn't the problem, it's all the rest of the crap that needs to catch up with the no-waste attitude. once there's money in all THAT stuff, we'll get somewhere.
wasting shit will be the end of us. it's not just the tide bottle. it's the whole picture. it's all the food we throw away and all the electricity we use, and all the one-time-use items we love to buy for convenience. we need to slow the fuck down.
i use the cfls and the whole '"if it's yellow let it mellow" deal, i recycle by force, and i don't litter. that's all i got. i would compost if i had more space, but i'm in a very urban neighborhood with small yards. i grow lots of food during growing season, though, and i don't use any synthetic chemicals. i try to do more than nothing.
