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Flat White

Recycling is rubbish

27 February 2018

7:28 AM

27 February 2018

7:28 AM

Recycling is rubbish. Not in the sense that the stuff we recycle is rubbish – which it is, of course – but in the sense that the whole rationale and efficiency of recycling is nonsense. It doesn’t work and it compounds the problem it’s supposed to fix. This is counter-intuitive to what most people believe because we suffer a zeitgeist where recycling is portrayed as both good and necessary.

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