Recycling Taking Aways Peoples Jobs?!

I do throw my trash out. But we live in the 'country' soon to be suburbia so we don't have bag ladies here yet but in Harrisburg there are a few

 

Maybe you should bag and save your cans for your future suburbian bag ladies. Or perhaps you could transport them to Harrisburg, I am sure there's probably a charitable organization you could turn them over to that would share the wealth with the bag ladies

 

I uh, don't donate to medium+ sized charities. I usualy only donate to those little jars you see in coffee shops and what not. And its all because I don't know how much of my money is acutally going to where its supposed to go. So I just don't deal with it

 

All I can say is I understand why you young f*cks sign up and don the uniform to fight the radical extremist enemy.

 

Actually, some people in the city do make a living picking up litter. Doing their job is likely to make them unemployed. I live in the city, I see crews picking trash and litter two times a day.

I do not litter, I just don't pick up litter.

People littering = a job for someone.

 

Perhaps you'd like someone to wipe your ass as well.

 

Aw, scared to get your lilly white hands dirty?

If littering is such a great thing then how come it's ILLEGAL?

Are you sure those crews are not prisoners on a work program? Here the only people who pick up trash are:
1. alcoholics scraping the bottom of the barrel for beer money - but they only pick up cans 'cause they don't get money for anything else. So if you toss out your trash chances are you are supporting the alcohol industry.
2. Work release projects for prisoners. They don't get paid, it's slave labor you are supporting.
3. Community service projects for people who got convicted of something and get to serve their sentences by doing so many hours of trash pickup. They don't get paid. And by tossing out trash you are supporting the legal system.
4. Adopt a Highway people. But nobody volunteers for that here any more. And they don't get paid either.
5. Me. And maybe a few others somewhere, altho I've never seen them...

I think the only people who should be FORCED to pick up trash by the legal system are those who are caught tossing it. OR high ranking political crooks. The state should create jobs for picking up trash and pay people to do it. Or give people tax breaks for keeping their roadsides cleaned up.

And to those of you who still think tossing out your trash is just OK, and it's the cheritable thing to do 'cause it gives someone else something to do, I'll make sure to stop by with my next truckload and drop it off in front of your house...

Fuckin' trailer trash lazy bastards.... Sorry. But there IS NO EXCUSE. Period.

 

Thanks for being a realistic voice Earthmother. These young slobs like to think there are a vast number of drones out there just waiting to pick up after them. I'll join your convoy and we can dump our trash in front of their homes.

 

How is it slave labor when they volunteer for the work?

I'm just playing the Devils Advocate here, I'm not worried about peices of paper and other bio-degradeable things laying about the ground, but cans and plastic and metal... thats a problem.

 

I bet your mommy just loves making your bed and washing your undies. Bet she wakes up in the morning just fascinated with the prospect.

Dirty diapers, snotty kleenex and dead pets are biodegradeable, you want them laying around your front yard?

 

I don't have a front yard... And if they were laying in my front yard... COMPOST HEAP TIME! grow a bamf garden with vegitables and crap.

 

Perhaps we should leave them in front of your apartment so you would have to walk through them to get to your cab. Gardeners don't use excrement and kleenex in their compost piles for reasons that should be clear to your enlightened intelligence.

 

do I look like a gardener? And I thought I made it clear when I said I live in the soon to be suburbia.... I have an apartment but my front yard is my drive way, and I don't go into the back yard at all.


And if you did put a bunch of trash in my yard at all, yeah I'd be pissed. I'd clean it up. But if I'm walking down the street and I see some trash, I don't care. I'm not going to bother to pick it up cause frankly I don't care whats going on to this planet. I feel as if the human race is speeding up its demise and I really just don't care enough about life to care. So dump all the trash that you want, I don't give a rats ass.

 

What a terrible argument. Even assuming it were true, those jobs don't even come close to equaling the importance of our planet's well being. It's much easier for people like your dad to find news jobs than for us to find and then relocate to a new planet.

Don't take offense to this but I think it was a silly thing for your father to say. He probably heard it somewhere, liked the sound of it, but didn't think it through to the end.

I mean really it's like saying "I'm sorry we're gonna have to just kill off the entire planet. The only other option is to lay off thousands of garbageman and that ain't gonna happen on my watch!"

It's just a ridiculous argument. The issue isn't even if recycling causes garbageman to lose jobs but how unimportant their jobs reallyare compared to the well being of our planet. I mean we're talking about an earth of 6 billion people and trillions of animals and plants weighed against the salaries of garbageman.

And then to top it all off, we're not even sure if recycling WILL effect people's jobs. So REALLY it's like "well let's go ahead and just doom this planet to oblivion now in the off chance that these guys lose their jobs".

REE-DICK-YOU-LUSS!

 

So you are not part of the planet or the solution. Only one that hopes to benefit from the labor of others.

 

I don't hope to benefit from the labor of others, I benefit from the labor of myself, for myself.

 

People you are misunderstanding what I am saying. I am just supporting the argument the thread title makes. I do not in anyway support, or encourage littering or discourage recycling.

Does recycling take way jobs? Yes, but like someone said above such jobs are not as important as the health of the planet.