Recycling Is Worthless: “It’s a sacrament of the Green Religion”

Looks like another “conspiracy theory” just came true again!

To quote Yogi Berra it’s like “deja vu all over again” these days with conspiracy after conspiracy being proven 100% true.

The latest is the Myth of Recycling, or as John Stossel put it: “the Green Religion” otherwise known as Gaia Worship.

I’ve been telling people for years that Recycling is a scam.

Recycling is “garbage”, no pun intended….

I have no doubt some people mean well by it, but it simply doesn’t work!

Most of it does not end up actually getting recycled and the time, energy and “carbon dioxide” that we put into Recycling is far greater and does far more harm than if we’d simply throw the stuff in the garbage.

People have laughed at me when I’ve told them that, but now it’s proven 100% accurate.

A big thanks to John Stossel for his excellent video and for Elon Musk who amplified the message on X this morning:

Recycling is pointless https://t.co/vQZrnsHrVr

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 13, 2024

And in case you need a backup, here is the same video on YouTube.

I will also post the full transcript of the video below in case that’s easier for you.

Please enjoy — and then share this to wake some more people up to the scam of the Green Religion:

FULL TRANSCRIPT:

Do you recycle? For sure, absolutely. Absolutely everything I possibly can. For decades we’ve been told

Recycle America. Don’t just throw it all away. Because recycling will save the planet. You’re saving the Earth!

And that’s what people believe. We have to do it for the kids, for the next generation. This will all be back on the shelf

as a cracker or cereal box in about 4-5 weeks. This recycling company is run by Lynn Hoffman. If we’re not using recycled paper and cardboard we’re cutting down more trees.

Recycling paper and cardboard does save trees. Recycling aluminum does save energy. But most of the other stuff is impractical to recycle. That’s right.

This is material that came into the recycling facility from people’s recycling carts, but is going to leave as trash. Huge amounts of what people send to her

recycling plant will never be recycled. The worst is plastic which for years has been marked with a recycling symbol. We see stuff like this all the time,

recycling arrows on it, “please recycle.” It’s not recyclable. Even worse, plastic bags clog the recycling machines.

We have to climb in for a couple hours every day and cut them out with the box cutter. But people think most of our plastic is recycled. Yeah, I do think so.

Is it not, you gonna tell me it’s not? That’s the trick? The reality is that The amount of plastic actually recycled is around 5%.

Wow. I figured there was something coming, but I’m, I’m, I’m shocked right now. I didn’t know. It’s sad.

[Cans tossed] All my life, I’ve heard about how important it is to recycle. It’s not. Science writer John Tierney debunked

recycling claims years ago. His New York Times Magazine story “Recycling is Garbage” set a record for Times hate mail.

And yet What you said is still true? It’s even more true today. In fact, the economics have just gotten worse.

Now my city would save more than $300 million a year if it just stopped recycling. Recycling is an industry that is using increasingly expensive labor

to produce materials that are worth less and less. Because it’s not worth recycling here, much is shipped overseas to countries like Malaysia where it’s just piled up.

A vast field of plastic. Two stories high. Some of it from America. See if we can look on the back here. Marysville, Ohio.

Look! Walmart bag. That pollutes even more and what they don’t burn, they sometimes dump in the ocean.

One garbage truck of plastic is dumped in the sea every minute. Barely any of that plastic comes from American shores so [Dolphin noise]

If you care about saving Flipper, you should put your plastic bottle in the garbage. [Truck running over garbage] The garbage?

But then it would go to a landfill. And aren’t we running out of space for landfills? I’m sure we are. People believe that because

for years the media said We’ve about run out of places to throwaway our throwaways. They think that because years ago

there was so much publicity about this barge. A symbol of this country’s growing problems with trash. The barge travelled thousands of miles looking for a place to dump its load.

But it wasn’t because there wasn’t room. States turned this barge away because alarmist media scared people about what it contained.

There could be infection waste. Dripping brown ooze of possibly infectious material. We don’t know what kind of tropical vermin is in that garbage. But the EPA later found it was normal garbage.

And landfills had plenty of room for that. Today they have more space than we’ll ever need. If you think of the United States as a football field, all the garbage that we will generate

in the next 1000 years would fit inside a tiny fraction of the one inch line. Really!? Oh, that’s surprising.

On top of that, today’s landfills are not the polluters they once were. Some sensible regulations make sure they don’t pollute. Eventually landfills are turned into

ski hills, parks and golf courses. [Clink] Putting garbage here is much cheaper than recycling, so why do towns keep pushing recycling?

They do it because people demand it. It’s a sacrament of the green religion. I rinse my cans, I take my labels off if there’s

plastic on, that’s something that’s paper. I take the plastic piece off of it. That’s fine if they wanna do it voluntarily, but we shouldn’t mandate that.

It’s not my religion. I don’t wanna perform that sacrament. I don’t want to either. It’s time consuming and complicated.

My city orders us, follow all these rules. And that’s one of the reasons recycling fails is because it’s so complicated

people never learn the rules and why should they be spending their free time learning these rules? Worse, lots of what we do is pointless.

If you rinse a plastic bottle in hot water, the net result is more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere than if you threw it in the garbage. Even Greenpeace said,

most plastic simply cannot be recycled. So what’s Greenpeace’s solution? Let’s stop producing it. You’re saying, don’t use plastic at all.

Ban plastic. I think that’s where we’re headed. No more plastic? But plastic often creates less emissions than alternatives.

Environmental groups rarely mention that, or how they misled us about recycling for years. It’s appalling that after telling people for three decades to recycle,

they don’t even apologize for all the time and money that they wasted, instead they have an even worse proposal that will make life even worse and even more expensive.

One time-consuming dream of theirs is a “circular economy” where everything is reused. If you’re running out a laundry detergent, you could take your jug back to the store

and fill it up instead of buying another one. That’s really the goal. But people don’t want to, you’re, you’re, you’re asking them to do things