Recycling Conundrum

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Jamien Corso Economics 195-508 (42422) Mon 6:30-9:30 Jorgensen I believe that the government cannot solve the environmental problems that we face today. It seems that the government regulations and mandatory recycling creates more problems and costs us all more money than it saves. The article that I choose to help make my argument is from an online newspaper called the National Post. The Article is titled The recycling conundrum: How your blue bin hurts the environment. It was written by Kevin Libin for the paper on Thursday, Dec 3, 2009. Let’s talk about some of the points that Betsy Hart was trying to get across in her article Recycling hardly all it’s cracked up to be. First she talks about the mandatory curbside recycling that most if not all of us do these days. I do every week sort through my newspaper, soup cans, aluminum cans and magazines for recycling every week. Since I was young I always thought we were recycling these items so that we would not fill the entire earth up with garbage as I remember being told in grade school and middle school. Well I guess that turns out not to be the case as she states in her article there is plenty of room in the United States for our trash. I feel like I have been lied to for years on this issue. In fact I seem to remember even being told by some teachers in school that we…show more content…
They implemented the mandatory curbside recycling in 2009 at an initial cost of 50 million dollars, with a tax of 50 million dollars a year to its residents. Calgary had emerged from the “dark ages” commented a columnist with the Calgary Herald. I would hope so with spending nearly 100 million dollars the first year alone. That is so much money that could be used to provide better medical care and education to Calgary’s population. This is the cost of a plan meant to divert 80% of Calgary’s garbage from landfills by

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