Greenpeace Admits It: Recycling Doesn t Work | City Journal
Even Greenpeace has finally acknowledged the truth: recycling plastic makes no sense.
This has been obvious for decades to anyone who crunched the numbers, but the fantasy of recycling plastic proved irresistible to generations of environmentalists and politicians. They preached it to children, mandated it for adults, and bludgeoned municipalities and virtue-signaling corporations into wasting vast sums probably hundreds of billions of dollars worldwide on an enterprise that has been harmful to the environment as well as to humanity.
Now Greenpeace has seen the light, or at least a glimmer of rationality. The group has issued a report accompanied by a press release headlined, Plastic Recycling Is A Dead-End Street Year After Year, Plastic Recycling Declines Even as Plastic Waste Increases. The group s overall policy remains delusional the report proposes a far more harmful alternative to recycling but it s nonetheless encouraging to see environmentalists put aside their obsessions long enough to contemplate reality.