Recycling? Why are We Putting up with this GARBAGE!

By Neil Foster

Don’t you get a kick out of recycling all old rubbish you used to just throw away so that it could be dumped into a hole in the ground called a ‘landfill site’?

Didn’t it give you a sense of achievement that you personally were doing something to clean up the environment and make the world a better place for future generations?

I’m sure we all realise that recycling waste is a good thing to do and that it’s not an unreasonable endeavour that we should all participate in. However, the age old question we should all be asking is; apart from the planet, who gains?

When I took my first load to my local recycling center a few years ago it was free and I thought that was the only way that ordinary people would ever come around to the idea of recycling and so it seemed when on subsequent visits to the center I would see many of my friends and neighbours dutifully putting their unwanted food containers, old washing machines, even unwanted timber and stone into the vast array of recycling bins supplied by the local council for this purpose.

However, it wasn’t long after this, after the people had been habitualised into using the center to get rid of unwanted goods that the first charge came into being. This was to be €2 per visit and seemed a not unreasonable sum for the service being provided and the general public did not appear to be put out by it and carried on recycling as before, washing out their old food containers, washing polystyrene and separating all the rubbish into the various categories as stated by the council.

This has now all changed with new charges set to be introduced in August whereby my own costs will rise from €2 to €7 per visit, a whopping 350% increase in the charge overnight. This of course will simply lead to the age old practice well established prior to the introduction of the recycling center of ‘fly tipping’ or in other words, dumping rubbish at the side of the road. I won’t personally but I do know that a number of people will do so simply because they can no longer afford to recycle.

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