The Impossibility of Growth

[Fake Boris]

BTW:

not all plastic is recyclable
greasy cardboard can't be recycled
manufacturing these goods creates lots of pollutants
there is a limit to the number of times paper can be recycled

[The Mad Monk]

Greasy cardboard can be recycled. I compost it all the time.

[Sava]

[Fake Boris]

Greasy cardboard can be recycled. I compost it all the time.

Yes, I think you're correct on that one.

[regexcellent]

it's too far to bother walking to the recycling dumpster, whereas the trash dumpster is ~10 yards from my door. So in the trash it goes.

[Felch]

I'd argue that composting paper products is probably better than trying to recycle them. Recycling usually involves a lot of harsh chemicals and the unavoidable emissions caused by picking up and transporting paper in trucks. Composting can be done in your backyard, it requires no chemicals, and it helps restore nutrients to the soil.

The catch is that paper needs to be mixed with other, richer wastes before it can be made into useful compost. But there's no shortage of food scraps in modern society, so that's not really such an issue.

[N35t0r]

Most of my paper waste goes into our compost bin.