{"id":3688,"date":"2019-08-01T09:46:59","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T09:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/08\/01\/recycle-or-dump-in-the-trash\/"},"modified":"2019-08-01T09:46:59","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T09:46:59","slug":"recycle-or-dump-in-the-trash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/08\/01\/recycle-or-dump-in-the-trash\/","title":{"rendered":"Recycle or Dump in the Trash?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">My wife recycles religiously. I have long been agnostic about its value and efficacy. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearscience.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/15\/why_its_probably_better_for_the_planet_to_throw_plastic_in_the_trash.html\">Here<\/a> is an article by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearscience.com\/authors\/ross_pomeroy\/\">Ross Pomeroy<\/a> that supports my skepticism.&#0160;&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Just as I suspected, a lot of what people dutifully recycle, after wasting water washing the containers, gets thrown into landfills anyway.&#0160; My wife&#39;s a good Catholic girl. She doesn&#39;t worship the Green Goddess, but some of my neighbors do. Across the street there lives a pussy-hatted liberal lady, single and reclusive, who actually trekked to Trump&#39;s inaugural there to protest the Orange Racist in her pussyhat.&#0160; Said neighbor pays for a special recyclables pickup.&#0160; She allows us to use her barrel gratis. Now we already have two scheduled trash pickups per week. The recyclables one makes for a third. This causes further environmental damage. The heavy truck stresses our street, burns fossil fuels, and makes a godawful, cat-scaring racket worse than the &quot;infernal cracking of whips&quot; about which Schopenhauer so eloquently complained in his classic <a href=\"https:\/\/biblioklept.org\/2013\/06\/06\/on-noise-arthur-schopenhauer\/\">On Noise<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">When wifey is not looking, I just throw the trash in the normal receptacle and cover it up with used cat litter and the output of the shredder, all the while thinking mean thoughts about Miss Occasional Cortex.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">As I always say:&#0160; No day without political incorrectness!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\"><em>Mirabile dictu<\/em>, you may be saving the oceans by <em>not<\/em> recycling! Read the article for the reasoning behind this startling claim.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">As for Bergoglio the Benighted, he too should read the article, stop worrying about straws in the ocean, and start teaching the Four Last Things. Assuming he hasn&#39;t forgotten what they are.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My wife recycles religiously. I have long been agnostic about its value and efficacy. Here is an article by Ross Pomeroy that supports my skepticism.&#0160;&#0160; Just as I suspected, a lot of what people dutifully recycle, after wasting water washing the containers, gets thrown into landfills anyway.&#0160; My wife&#39;s a good Catholic girl. She doesn&#39;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/08\/01\/recycle-or-dump-in-the-trash\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Recycle or Dump in the Trash?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[272],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmentalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}