John Stossel: The Recycling Religion | The Patriot Post

John Stossel: The Recycling Religion | The Patriot Post

• The ugly truth is that many “recyclables” sent to recycling plants are never recycled.

"For decades, we’ve been told: recycle!
...Years ago, science writer John Tierney wrote a New York Times Magazine story, “Recycling Is Garbage.” It set a Times record for hate mail.

But what he wrote was true.
“It’s even more true today,” says Tierney in my new video. 

“Recycling is an industry that uses increasingly expensive labor to produce materials that are worth less and less.”
It would be smarter to just dump our garbage in landfills...