Recycling take away peoples jobs!?!?!

The question is whether the net effect is negative. It creates some jobs, it eliminates others. So does technology - technology has eliminated millions of jobs - but that doesn't mean it creates long term unemployment. It just mean people get displaced and have to find new jobs.

Originally Posted by MeowMix

Another thing he says is when I use water to clean out the cans/plastic bottles that have sugar in them I'm wasting water.

Just be sure to use of the cold water, not the hot. (It takes much electricity to warm the water.)

tell him its too fuckin bad and you're gonna do what you want

I don't wash my recylcing, I know they have an idustrial washer...so why bother?

Maybe we should create more criminals, that would create more jobs!
Make more sick people too, that would surely boost the economy.

What an ignorant statement......

Yeah I definitely disagree with your dad. If it's bad to recycle then I don't know what can be good for the environment... I'm sure people taking plastics and such out of someones garbage is not gonna bother the garbage men or even the people who work at the plant because no sadly many people still do not recycle. And if it does, who gives a shit! It's for a great cause!

Good luck with your dad, and keep up the good work! I'm glad there are definitely still people like us out still taking care of mother earth <3

I think the best way to deal with that is to just go on with recycling and educate the future generations about how recycling should help the environment.

Here's a real eye opener...please read!
Recycling: What a Waste!

Mises Daily: Thursday, September 22, 2005 by Jim Fedako
This fall, school kids across the country will again be taught a chief doctrine in the civic religion: recycle, not only because you fear the police but also because you love the planet. They come home well prepared to be the enforcers of the creed against parents who might inadvertently drop a foil ball into the glass bin or overlook a plastic wrapper in the aluminum bin.


Oh, I used to believe in recycling, and I still believe in the other two R's: reducing and reusing. However, recycling is a waste of time, money, and ever-scarce resources. What John Tierney wrote in the New York Times nearly 10 years ago is still true: "Recycling may be the most wasteful activity in modern America."
Read more... http://mises.org/daily/1911

ZW

Mistreating and mismanaging the environment is always good for jobs and economic growth - in the short run. The real problem is short-term thinking. Hopefully, our lives are not going to be short-term.

Is it possible that the disagreement between you and your father is a cultural one? You a hippie (at least of sort) and your father something else (e.g., redneck, CEO, union member)? The job thing might just be an outcome of that, but not the basic issue.

I have noticed that many of the products that are made of recycled content are being marketed to a liberal audience with messages that appeal to liberals. Perhaps we need recycled products and advertising that appeals to other groups.

I, myself, recycle/upcycle vintage auto hubcaps into clocks. You don't have to be a red neck to like them, but there is cross over appeal. Incidentally, I had a philosophical wrestling match with myself about whether it was a product I should sell. Was I promoting and glorifying auto use by selling hubcap clocks? Does the resources saved by recycling justify the glorification?

In the end, I decided that red necks need recycled products too.