(10-06-2022, 10:35 AM)mikesez Wrote: Steel and aluminum usually do get recycled.  Sometimes they are even taken out of the regular trash steam, for recycling.  The plastic and paper you put in the bin may or may not be recycled.  Which is fine, there is not as much environmental benefit to recycling paper and plastic because there is a premium on virgin material and making new costs about the same amount of energy as recycling.  But with metal there is no "virgin premium" and new extraction takes a lot more energy than recycling.

Yeah?  Is that the case?  So who cares?

How many metric tons of aluminum have you recycled over the last ten years??? 

Rhetorical question.  They want paper, plastic whatever… they’ll get it.  The fact we pretend to be bigger than Mother Nature/earth is comical at best.  I don’t care about the worlds population.  And that is leaving out religious arguments.

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