The Costs Of Manufacturing Green Sustainable Products

[Ed The Roofer]

I always wondered, when the recycling guys pick up your recyclable trash can, with that $100,000 truck and the one or two ment that the city employs to pick the stuff up and then the fuel to bring ii to the recycle location and then all of the sorting and re-transormation costs of re-using the previously disgarded items, how much it costs to get the former throw away materials back into the mainstream of public usage once again?

I am sure there are studies on this, so does it cost more, even if it saves supposed natural resources, to re-make the new products from recycled products?

Ed

[Mike(VA)]

Add to that the costs just to rinse out a can or bottle of sauce. How much is being wasted so we don't waste anything.

[SLS-Construction]

Most cities & states that push the recycling aspect don't do it for the green factor, but to save space in the landfills. It is cheaper for them to do this than to go through all the fights & money required for opening up new landfills.

In some cases they have to pay companies that they use for dropping off certain recycled items.

By the way you need to add in the group that stays at the sorting stations, and the other drivers that drop off the metal here, the paper there, etc...

As for the studies, I can't think of one huge all encompassing one being done - they are generally done by local cities, towns, manufacturers, suppliers and are pretty narrow in their approach

[Handyman Service]

Speaking of recycling-if you go to effort (as my daughter does) to save up a bunch of plastic water bottles to recycle, why don't you get a nickel back per bottle returned? We pay a nickel per bottle out here, but when you return them, they weigh them and don't pay anything rear what they should.

When I was a kid, we used to grab a grocery cart on a Saturday morning, go around the block knocking on doors and asking if they had any bottles we could recycle? Forget mowing lawns, people would give us the bottles and we would go to thegrocery store and recycle them. The glass bottle in the late seventies, was 10¢. We would make a Killing.

Speaking of those plastic bottles, what is the big deal if it takes 1000 years to decompose? How does that hurt the environment? If it decomposes eventually, what is the harm? The earth will still be here 1000 years from now, we won't.

[Bodger]

Speaking of recycling-if you go to effort (as my daughter does) to save up a bunch of plastic water bottles to recycle, why don't you get a nickel back per bottle returned? We pay a nickel per bottle out here, but when you return them, they weigh them and don't pay anything rear what they should.

When I was a kid, we used to grab a grocery cart on a Saturday morning, go around the block knocking on doors and asking if they had any bottles we could recycle? Forget mowing lawns, people would give us the bottles and we would go to thegrocery store and recycle them. The glass bottle in the late seventies, was 10¢. We would make a Killing.

Speaking of those plastic bottles, what is the big deal if it takes 1000 years to decompose? How does that hurt the environment? If it decomposes eventually, what is the harm? The earth will still be here 1000 years from now, we won't.


I had a 10 foot long piece of C.R. Laurence solid aluminum base shoe left over from a glass deck railing job. Weighed about 65 pounds. I figured I would get some nice bucks for that at the recycling joint. Considering how many aluminum cans it would take to equal that weight. Figured on maybe enough dough to buy me 20 gallons of gas.

Not. I got $16 for that damn thing. So these dudes I see around with a train of shopping carts full of cans are getting what...$5 for the whole load?

Discouraging. I figured if the economy doesn't pick up, I might have a future in recycling.