3 reasons why we should not recycle?

Question

why should we recycle

Answer 1

because its our earth thats paying for our mistakes.

we build on earth and use all of its resources why cant we just help out a little bit and throw plastics in one can and food in the other?

i think its so easy yet people are so lazy

just think...if we keep killing earth and not doing what we can to help it we and earth will die and we wont have phones or cars or computers or any of that good stuff. we would be dead. so before we can think about other technology lets make sure we have a life and a planet to use it first.

Answer 2

throwing junk in the fire is cool looking, throwing garbage along the road is cheaper, leave garbage outside feeds the rats which is good

Answer 3

1~its not going to make a big difference anyway because not everyone is going to co~operate

2~we have to pay for the recycling bins and all the annual fees every year because the government won't

3~you don't get any money for the materials to put forward, the council does

Answer 4

Okay. It's not that I believe this to be a good reason or anything. But I think that a reason would be to keep the economy going. If all people recycled and reused, big industries would see a marked decline in their revenue (giving the consumer somewhat of an upper hand by the way). But in the eyes of these companies, like those that market disposables, it would be a great reason not to recycle.

You have to remember that there are people out there who can see the most beneficial things to mankind as a terrible thing to their pocket and ultimately that's all that matters to them.

Answer 5

Um duh there arent any . You need to recycle to keep our planet on which we live alive. It needs our help recycling is one of the ways to do that!

Answer 6

So many people are recycling that all the recycled products are building up in dumps, etc. Just sitting there.

Answer 7

I can't think of any reason why we shouldn't either.  I firmly believe in the whole reduce, reuse and recycle.

Answer 8

Stuff is almost gone! better to use it again instead of getting new stuff at a bigger price?

I attended the Focus the Nation at Sierra College on 1-31-08. The event was the 2% Solution, a 2% reduction over 40 years to solve GW. Oil is a nonrenewable resource and we are running out-but not soon - $30 Gal for gas. The 2% Solution is ok for the USA for a 10 year plan to cut 20%. But over those 10 years, we have to be building renewable energy and about that time, we can cut an additional 20%. This should get us from importing any oil. We must have a pollution surcharge where we pay the real price (health effects, GW and cleanup) for oil, NG, coal, cigarettes, Cooling Towers, Cars, trains and airplanes. Humans have to put some of this nonrenewable into renewable energy like small hydro-electric dams, concentrating solar power plants, wind and wave machines, nuks, and geothermal. With the peak of oil in the 1970’s, peak NG in the 1990’s, having mined cheep coal, the peak of ocean fishing in the 1980’s, and the peak of uranium in the 1990’s, humans must stop procrastinating and make real changes to keep earth sustainable including in the energy debate, finance and regulation.

Many of mankind’s advancements cause earth surface to warm, destroy the ozone layer, kill off endanger species, heat cities, and in some way cause more dramatic destruction.  Blacktop and buildings (roads, roofs and parking lots-heat cities), deforestation (air pollution, soil erosion), duststorms (increase hurricanes and cyclones, cause lung diseases), fires (cause pollution, mud slides, and deforestation), refrigerants (like CFC's) and solvents (including benzene destroy the ozone layer raising skin cancer rates) and plastics; cars, airplanes, ships and most electricity production (causes pollution including raised CO2 levels and increased lung and other diseases); these human problems we must fix to keep life on earth sustainable! Humans have destroyed half of the wetlands, cut down nearly half of the rain forest, and advance on the earths grasslands while advancing desertification which increases duststorms.

The result is:  change is on the way, we just do not know what changes (where and when). Look beyond the hype, beyond the weather, beyond a quarterly report and beyond today. President Bush has made a choice of energy (ethanol) over food and feeding the starving people around the world; this is a choice China has rejected. The fact is Bush wants to buy your food to send to starving people since our grain is not available. Now what USA Presidential candidate is give you the facts so you can make an educated decision?

Over the next 90 years carbon dioxide is projected to skyrocket as human’s burn more fossil fuels. The problem is, the oil will be gone in less than 30 years at present rates of consumption without projected increases and shortages. We have to come up with what will take its place. Again we have to cleanup our mess. One of the big problems we have is at some time Yellowstone will blow its top again, as the magma move closer to the surface, creating a nuk winter. After that we will not have to worry about the destruction of the ozone layer, global warming or pollution.

But with that we must understand we have never seen what is now happening before. CO2 has never lead to temperature change, but temperature change has led to increases in CO2. The models have to be made as we go along with current evidence! But again adding a small amount of CO2 to the atmosphere enlarges the earths sun collection causing warming; increase water in the atmosphere and it forms clouds cooling earth but sometimes causing flooding. Even natural events are warming earth and causing destruction. The sun has an increased magnetic field causing increases in earthquakes (more destruction), volcanoes (wow, great destruction), and sun spots. Lighting produces ozone near the surface (raising air pollution levels). The USA Mayor's have taken a stand and I believe are on the right track, we can have control and can have economic growth. The sun is available to produce energy, bring light to buildings and makes most of human’s fresh water. Composting is the answer to desertification. New dams are the answer to fresh water storage, energy and cooling earth by evaporation, we need many small ones all over (California needs 100 by 2012 and has not even started).

Remember knowledge is power and this information is very powerful. Humans have 50 trillion dollars worth of stuff that runs on cheep oil, natural gas, or coal. We need 20 Trillion Dollars worth of renewable energy over the next 10 years if we are to avoid a world wide depression (and right now ethanol does not count)!

That is why I founded CoolingEarth.org, a geoengineering web sight where you can learn more about earth, the atmosphere, and how to sustain life on earth’s surface.

Answer 9

Although I cannot think of ONE good reason why we should not recycle-I am sure many other people think that (1) it takes time to rinse, sort,the cans, and plastic stuff; (2) Laziness (3) lack of concern for out environment or other people.

Answer 10

Can't think of any. It just makes sense to recycle products that are reusable, because it produces less waste and it cost less to reuse materials than it does to make new.

Answer 11

There's not enough recycling services out there to recycle all the products that can be recycled. Where is there a company that deals strickly with tires? Or paper or concrete or lumber or metal? And chemicals like paint and cleaning materials?

These are major concerns, but where does all the non-biodegradable stuff go like plastic and styrofoam? There should be a special place for all this stuff to go to so it can be reused from all over the country.

Answer 12

It all depends on what's meant by 'recycling'.

Why recycle items which could simply be reused?  For example, soft drinks and beer used to come in bottles which could be returned for refilling - a simple 'deposit' system ensured that a large proportion were taken back.  Why replace that with an energy-intensive process involving collection, sorting, remanufacuring and redistribution?  Even better, go back to the earlier system of bulk distribution, and 'bring your own bottle to be filled'.