It was the headline that caught my eye, but once I got into the meat of the article there were more disturbing things in it than the idea that recycling is adding to global warming.
First off, the idea behind this is that they are producing an awful lot of carbon getting the garbage in England to where it is recycled. One wonders whether they should, wait for it…just burn it:
Peter Jones suggested that an “urgent” review of Labour’s policy on recycling was needed to make sure the collection, transportation and processing of recyclable material was not causing a net increase in greenhouse gases.
Mr Jones, a former director of the waste firm Biffa and now an adviser to environment ministers and the London Mayor, Boris Johnson, also dismissed kerbside recycling collections in many areas as “stupid” because they mixed together different materials, rendering them useless for recycling.
He suggested that much of the country’s waste should simply be burnt to generate electricity.
“It might be that the global warming impact of putting material through an incinerator five miles down the road is actually less than recycling it 3,000 miles away,” he said.
I don’t know if they were burning it before and then switched to recycling it in China, but if you can attack a coal plant because of global warming, then I imagine a rubbish incinerator is a prime target. But this illustrates the non-sensical nature of the left and brings us back to Quinn’s First Law: Liberalism always generates the exact opposite of its stated intent.
But there was more than the above in the article that troubled me. It troubled me because we now have a Congress and Executive branch with the same green-brained ideas Great Britain has had for years. Is this a sign of our future in America:
In some parts of the country, residents have to sort their waste into as many as seven containers, including food waste bins, which has helped councils to justify the scrapping of weekly bin collections.
GREAT SCOTT! What is the carbon footprint of creating seven rubbish containers per resident? Anyone? I wish that were the worst of it, but get a load of this:
Some town halls have admitted using anti-terrorism legislation to snoop on householders who fail to recycle properly…
Un. Be. Lievable.
And then there is this one:
…councils have so far refused to test the Government’s bin taxes, under which people would be fined for throwing out too much rubbish.
“Fined for throwing out too much rubbish.” What are you supposed to do with it if you have it and it’s over your limit? Keep it in the house?
Behold the green future that lies before you. Under the guise of liberalism and environmentalism, the government will have an increasingly irritating and bizarre role in your life. Now that, my friends, is change.
