There is one resource we can’t get more of: time. Our lives pass quickly, and we have many things to do. But we are asked to donate our time to recycling, to “save” resources. We are asked to wash out and clean the stuff (I actually know people who run their garbage through the dishwasher, so it will be clean. Think of the time, coal-produced electricity, and hot water that uses.) Then we are supposed to sort the garbage and deliver it to the recycling facility.
Why isn’t this done at the recycling facility? Because the government realizes (correctly) it is too expensive, and the costs would swamp the tiny savings, if there are any, in doing recycling in the first place. But if the costs of cleaning and sorting are too great at scale, with commercial resources, why isn’t the sum of the individual costs of cleaning and sorting, in each household, even greater?
If you add up the time being wasted on recycling rituals, it’s even more expensive to ask each household to do it. The difference is that this is an implicit tax, a donation required of citizens, and doesn’t cost money from the public budget. But time is the least renewable of all resources; demanding that it be donated to a pointless or even harmful ritual such as recycling glass is government malpractice.
Jeg har det fin med at sortere affald. Nu vasker og tørre jeg det så heller ikke. Det tager ikke længere tid end da man smed det hele i samme spand og det forekommer mig at det rent faktisk er smart at adskille vådt madaffald og det der skal direkte i forbrændingen ( hvis man brænder vådt affald koster det at brænde vandet væk ) og så stinker affaldsrummene heller ikke så meget mere.
Derimod genere det mig at plastik bliver KØRT til Tyskland for at blive brændt af, det giver sgu da ingen mening.
Plastik bliver indsamlet af plastsorterings firmaer, så tag dog for fanden at sortere det, det er det de bliver betalt for!
Hele sorteringshysteriet er en af venstrefløjens ideer og som sædvanligt har de ikke gennemtænkt deres mærkesager men gjort det til religion for derefter at overfalde dem der kritisere og påpeger manglerne.
I øvrigt som alle andre religiøse og især muslimer.
Husk, man har i dag kunstig intelligens. Set robotter til st sortere. Det er sku da en win win.