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My wife and I recycled just about everything for years. We live out in the country but have a company haul our trash weekly. He would rarely have more than a couple of bags in our trash. My wife works in Abilene so about twice a month, we would load up all the recycling and she would take it with her to a recycling collection point. We separated everything like the collection center wanted, different color glass, aluminum cans, steel cans, newsprint, cardboard, plastics, you name it. It would fill up her trunk. About 3 months ago, we found out Abilene does not have a contract with anyone for the recycling any longer and what we took for recycling was just taken to the landfill. We couldn't see any reason to continue sorting everything out and now our trash guy picks up four or five bags weekly. I hate not having the option to recycle, I think it is the logical and ethical thing to do. We are going to eventually run out of landfill space just because of single use plastic containers. JMTCW

But look at that beautiful mountain range Abilene is building north of town, one day Abilene will have a mountain range with snow capped peaks and ski resorts and mountain trails. They just need to plant some pine trees, and soon people will have summer homes in the cool mountain air.

China quit buying a lot of the recyclables. https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsa...c-trash-go-now-that-china-doesnt-want-it

This earth has been getting warmer since the Ice Age.

My wife and I recycled just about everything for years. We live out in the country but have a company haul our trash weekly. He would rarely have more than a couple of bags in our trash. My wife works in Abilene so about twice a month, we would load up all the recycling and she would take it with her to a recycling collection point. We separated everything like the collection center wanted, different color glass, aluminum cans, steel cans, newsprint, cardboard, plastics, you name it. It would fill up her trunk. About 3 months ago, we found out Abilene does not have a contract with anyone for the recycling any longer and what we took for recycling was just taken to the landfill. We couldn't see any reason to continue sorting everything out and now our trash guy picks up four or five bags weekly. I hate not having the option to recycle, I think it is the logical and ethical thing to do. We are going to eventually run out of landfill space just because of single use plastic containers. JMTCW

Recycling costs money. Most people don't realize that. It all comes down to the moolah.

Yes, I realize that. When China quit buying most recyclables, it put the kibosh on the ability of many smaller municipalities to continue their recycling programs. The cost of developing and building their own recycling plants would be huge, therefore prohibitive. Everything costs money including collecting and hauling formerly recyclable garbage to and maintaining a local landfill. The root problem, as I see it, is that we have become a "throw away" society. When I was growing up, we had glass milk jugs that we took to the dairy to be refilled. We collected "coke bottles" to return for the deposit. At three to five cents a bottle, we could make a "killing" on a weekend. I was probably 16 years old before I realized that not everybody drank from Garrett Snuff glasses. If someone had told me then that in 10 to 15 years most people would buy their drinking water in plastic bottles, I would have thought they were off their rocker. I'm certainly not calling for the adoption of the "New Green Deal" but you would think there is a sensible solution to the mass consumption and waste that has become the norm.

God has given us exactly what we need to prosper and be in good health. No man can change the climate and it is not changing up or down more than it ever has since He created it. You see everyone needs a savior, but the godless people want to be the savior so they must constantly create a doomsday scenario so They can be the savior. There is nothing new under the sun, just ignorance vs. wisdom.