{"id":89111,"date":"2013-04-22T16:02:57","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T22:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=89111"},"modified":"2013-04-22T16:02:57","modified_gmt":"2013-04-22T22:02:57","slug":"earth-day-special-recycling-is-garbage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=89111","title":{"rendered":"Earth Day Special: &#8216;Recycling Is Garbage&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.williams.edu\/HistSci\/curriculum\/101\/garbage.html\" target=\"_blank\">John Tierney<\/a> is not afraid to write what everybody knows.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Recycling does sometimes makes sense-for some materials in some places at some times. But the simplest and cheapest option is usually to bury garbage in an environrnentally safe landfill. And since there&#8217;s no shortage of landfill space (the crisis of 1987 was a false alarm), there&#8217;s no reason to make recycling a legal or moral imperative. Mandatory recycling programs aren&#8217;t good for posterity. They offer mainly short-term benefits to a few groups-politicians, public relations consultants, environmental organizations, waste-handling corporations-while diverting money from genuine social and environmental problems. Recycling may be the most wasteful activity in modern America: a waste of time and money, a waste of human and natural resources.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Tierney is not afraid to write what everybody knows. Recycling does sometimes makes sense-for some materials in some places at some times. But the simplest and cheapest option is usually to bury garbage in an environrnentally safe landfill. And since there&#8217;s no shortage of landfill space (the crisis of 1987 was a false alarm), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-think-about-it"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89111"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89113,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89111\/revisions\/89113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}