Recycling Services. Are they going away?

Have you noticed that some facilities that used to have recycling services are no longer accepting “donations” is that what you would call it?

My husband has been noticing that in many government facilities (some that he works around)that offer recycling services have stopped accepting paper, cardboard, plastics, period.

Plastics and cardboard recycling have been seized.

Can you imagine what it costs to recycle this material? I was curious about the whole process, so I looked it up on Wikipedia.

The process is pretty detailed I couldn’t even imagine how much I would have to type.

There are lots of sorting and cleaning and all kinds of chemicals that go into the whole process.

There is recycling paper there’s plastic and there are also “criticisms”.

The question is, are recycling services counter productive to the “environmentalists” or are they doing the job, and really saving energy.

I came across an article on criticisms on recycling.  It was right along the lines of what my husband and I were discussing.

If it takes so much energy to recycle whats the whole deal about “saving energy”.  I am definitely not an expert or anything like that, but I am truly curious and I wonder if anyone is as curious about the whole idea as well.

• Criticism on recycling
• Does recycling save energy
• Recycling facts and figures

Its a pretty long read, but very good.  I hope you enjoy it.  Post your comments below.

Till next time!