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Originally Posted by Eurosceptic Atlanticist
What's wrong with recycling exactly? Seems like a perfectly sensible policy to me.
It's not like the world has unlimited resources.
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I was pointing out that it was not done for those reasons but to line the pockets of government cronies. China is not exactly known for its concern for the environment and so you get an unlevel playing field with is tilted towards a communist regime with abysmal human rights records. Also some recycling would be uneconomic without the green regime being in place. My guess is that this indicates some of it requires more resources than it produces. The free market is more than capable of optimising this all by itself. That was before people like Tescos started a price war on milk and so it put the milkman out of business, where all milk bottles were returnable.
Mind you if you think about it we won't run out of anything because it all remains on the planet in one form or another. I expect some of the irrecoverable materials today will be recoverable in the future when we have better technology. Even so I'm not one for excessive packaging and also I know I have to pay extra for it as well. However if I lived in a Tescos town I couldn't do anything about it, could I, what with one shop to choose from.