Sciq With Jayde Lovell

Recycling: Is it a scam?

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G'Day you! Yeah, I’m talking to you mate. What are you doing to save the environment?Oh, you recycle. Good for you! It’s a pain in the ass, isn’t it? Rinsing those yogurt tubs and then keeping them under the sink, all stinky like a dunny in summer? But it gives you a good feeling, right? Well, it may be giving you a good feeling, but I’m here to tell all you happy recyclers of the world – you ain’t doing sh*t for the environment. In fact, this whole recycling thing – it’s a big. Fat. scam.Right now you’re probably thinking – fair go Jayde, “What about all the recycling labels and the recycling plants…?!” Well – you’re right – recycling did actually used to help… in some way. But let’s cut to the chase: Recycling waste in the US is expensive. That’s why America used to only recycle about one third of its plastic domestically. We’d ship all our plastic sh*t to China, who’d buy it, melt it down and cheap plastic Chinese shit. In fact, China was the world’s dumping ground – impo