Comments on: If I ran for president https://www.davidonovan.com/if-i-ran-for-president/ Opinion and commentary from around the world and up your asphalt driveway Fri, 08 Aug 2014 20:09:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Nancye https://www.davidonovan.com/if-i-ran-for-president/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Thu, 22 Jun 2006 19:34:15 +0000 http://blog.davesweet.com/?p=36#comment-6 REALLY IMPRESSIVE!!!!!!

Didn’t know you had political aspirations!!!

]]> By: dave https://www.davidonovan.com/if-i-ran-for-president/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Wed, 21 Jun 2006 00:50:57 +0000 http://blog.davesweet.com/?p=36#comment-5 Good question Timothy. One of the biggest lies behind the recycling propaganda is that we’re running out of landfill capacity. This started with the Mobro 4000 in 1987, and was emphasized in J. Winston Porter’s EPA pamphlet of 1989, which asserted that because the number of landfills was decreasing our landfill capacity was decreasing as well. The fact is that individual landfills were growing in size, their disposal efficiency was increasing, and waste disposal was being consolidated so it wasn’t necessary to have as many landfills anymore. Landfills are having no problems at all with capacity, they have disposal processes so clean and efficient nowadays that it’s a modern marvel. And the larger ones reclaim enough methane gas from the decomposing material to power tens of thousands of homes. Recycling doesn’t help reduce the amount of trash in landfills at all, because most of what goes in your recycle bin ends up in the landfill anyway (the dirty secret of recycling), because it simply costs too much to recycle most “recyclable” items – like plastics. Aluminum is the most recyclable of all, but it is also about the only thing worth recycling because it costs five times as much to produce new aluminum as it does to recycle it. But for all the other stuff, it takes twice as many big trash trucks driving around twice as often to haul around all that recyclable material, burning twice as much fuel and spewing twice as much exhaust into the air, and then the recycling processes are less environmentally friendly than their original production counterparts and produce items that cost more with lower quality. And it’s costing us eight billion dollars per year, when recycling was supposed to be saving us money. If you’d like to learn more click on the highlighted recycling link in the original text above.

]]> By: Timothy https://www.davidonovan.com/if-i-ran-for-president/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Wed, 21 Jun 2006 00:16:57 +0000 http://blog.davesweet.com/?p=36#comment-4 Sounds good. But can’t we still recycle stuff with the extra money from legalized Marijuana? Does’nt recycling help trash reduction in land fills? I must have not been paying attention. Cool site.

Timothy

]]> By: Greg https://www.davidonovan.com/if-i-ran-for-president/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Mon, 19 Jun 2006 14:49:39 +0000 http://blog.davesweet.com/?p=36#comment-3 Dave:

Wow, I like the campaign trail so far, can we also make it so churches aren’t tax-exempt and have to account for all the $$$ they collect from many gulliable citizens?

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