Scrap Recycling Forum

Is recycling a waste of time, money and energy?

Most of us feel guilty if we do not take the trouble to wash and sort all those reusable plastics, papers and tins. We do this to avoid throwing them in the bin which then ends up in the landfill sites around the...

Its totally will not waste our money, even time and energy. I never felt recycling is wasting anyone of that. Its just an option.

Recycling helps coserving natural resouces and increase life

No i dont think recycling is a waste of time. It is great measure to protect the nature. So I dont think it is waste of time.

I don't think recycling is waste of time and money. You are saving the nature by recycling the waste things. You better don't think that recycling is the waste of time and money.

I don't think so. It won't waste time, energy, or money. Because It is really protecting the atmosphere from pollution so I think it is not waste of time and energy.

I never used to do recycling or reusing. But decided to start recycling and reusing of waste materials. I think recycling and reusing is not waste of time, money and energy.

I think recycling will waste of time, money and energy and recycle can help to increase our income

Well so i also think is not wast of time, money and energy,it's one of the better practice to do.

i don't see recycling as waste of time, money and energy. for some people recycling is there source of livelihood.

A number of sorting companies have already torn up their contracts with councils, and some collectors just won't touch recycling.

This is a private landfill in Melbourne run by BFI, the world's second-largest waste management company. But for all its expertise, technology and money, it's no longer collecting recyclable materials in Melbourne. It's just not economically viable. And the company won't discuss publicly its reasons for this decision, that's too politically sensitive.

BFI does operate a collection and sorting service in Canberra, a city that enjoys one of the highest recycling rates in Australia. But the news there is no better than anywhere else. The company's losing a hundred and twenty thousand dollars a month on a seven million dollar investment.

While many companies involved in kerbside recycling believe it's unsustainable at the moment, one says they're all wrong. Each year, Visy profitably turns a hundred thousand tonnes of household waste paper into cardboard boxes. It's invested enormous amounts of money into recycling and approaches it with missionary zeal.