What other people have said
Don't be an A-hole like Jake of VA.
Mike, San Diego
It keeps your trash out of our lovely sound
Zack Davis, Seattle
When we don't recycle you are putting reusable waste into our landfills. Now we have less land that we could use. We also have that material that the earth can't brake down. That garbage is going to be there for years! It could be a hazerd to you, your family, and animals who live in that area. The cool part is you could reuse some of that material for cool and useful crafts.
Mary, Buffalo
You dont have to do anymore work recycling over just throwing it in the trash. Its just a yellow can and a blue bin. Dont be lazy the recycling people do most of the work.
George, Stroudsburg
You should recycle because it's like giving the Earth a B I G hug :)
TerraD, St. Louis
You should recycle so you can act like you're more sophiscated while driving a prius, not fully undersanding the cost of alternative energy.
Mike Hunt, Kansas City
Give me head baby n I'll recycle for you haha
Mr360, Buffalo
You should recycle because if you don't you will be stereotyped and demeaned as a mean, uncaring, selfish, redneck, idiot, republican, earth destroyer (who hates babies). You will also get a false sense of importance and pride. Don't let anyone (especially the government) make you feel guilty so you'll do what they want.
Josh, Fulton
You should recycle because if you don't you will be stereotyped and demeaned as a mean, uncaring, selfish, redneck, idiot, republican, earth destroyer (who hates babies). You will also get a false sense of importance and pride. Don't let anyone (especially the government) make you feel guilty so you'll do what they want.
Josh, Fulton
You should recycle because if you don't you will be stereotyped and demeaned as a mean, uncaring, selfish, redneck, idiot, republican, earth destroyer (who hates babies). You will also get a false sense of importance and pride. Don't let anyone (especially the government) make you feel guilty so you'll do what they want.
Josh, Fulton
You should recycle because if you don't you will be stereotyped and demeaned as a mean, uncaring, selfish, redneck, idiot, republican, earth destroyer (who hates babies). You will also get a false sense of importance and pride. Don't let anyone (especially the government) make you feel guilty so you'll do what they want.
Josh, Fulton
You should recycle because if you don't you will be stereotyped and demeaned as a mean, uncaring, selfish, redneck, idiot, republican, earth destroyer (who hates babies). You will also get a false sense of importance and pride. Don't let anyone (especially the government) make you feel guilty so you'll do what they want.
Josh, Fulton
You should recycle because if you don't you will be stereotyped and demeaned as a mean, uncaring, selfish, redneck, idiot, republican, earth destroyer (who hates babies). You will also get a false sense of importance and pride. Don't let anyone (especially the government) make you feel guilty so you'll do what they want.
Josh, Fulton
You should recycle because if you don't you will be stereotyped and demeaned as a mean, uncaring, selfish, redneck, idiot, republican, earth destroyer (who hates babies). You will also get a false sense of importance and pride. Don't let anyone (especially the government) make you feel guilty so you'll do what they want.
Josh, Fulton
You should recycle because if you don't you will be stereotyped and demeaned as a mean, uncaring, selfish, redneck, idiot, republican, earth destroyer (who hates babies). You will also get a false sense of importance and pride. Don't let anyone (especially the government) make you feel guilty so you'll do what they want.
Josh, Fulton
You should recycle because if you don't you will be stereotyped and demeaned as a mean, uncaring, selfish, redneck, idiot, republican, earth destroyer (who hates babies). You will also get a false sense of importance and pride. Don't let anyone (especially the government) make you feel guilty so you'll do what they want.
Josh, Fulton
you shouldn't recycle - it's all a scam
Joe, Quincy
If you need convincing, then you haven't done your own research. Laziness by not doing your own research = you will never recycle because there isn't an easy button for it. Young people today 1st need convincing then, they just don't wanna do it anyway. It's the new generation. But it's easy to get a website, it must be easier than recycling. Non recyclers only care about the 'now' and themselves. They are just trashy.
Shanna, Indianapolis
Why should you need a reason to recycle? Just do it! And what's up with all these people who think it's a waste of money - oh well! If you recycle, you are awesome.
Kelly, Jacksonville
Recycling should be required for everyone! I recycle not only because it is the right thing to do, but because it's great for future generations. People are disgusting, do you know what a landfill looks like? Yup, we make that. We make all those piles of garbage, and every second, every minute those piles grow. You know how much space we're wasting on our trash? When you reduce, reuse, and recycle, your helping out everyone, including yourself.
Jane, Pensacola, FL
Here in Alaska we try to get two three uses out of everything. We don't have much recycling here, but if we did folks would do it. We know resources are hard to come by and you gotta put em to good use.
Don, Anchorage
People in Georgia should not recycle. The other states need the jobs.
Greg, Portland
I don't recycle either. High Five.
Rachel, Tenerife
It's pathetic that we live in a country where people like Jake here need an incentive for everything! Here's an incentive: recycling creates jobs, plain and simple. More jobs than landfills, too. So for you red-blooded 'uh-merr-icans' who feel you should be financially rewarded, there you go.
Candy, Springfield
Haha, Jason and Tim owned this pathetic website. Keep on not recycling, Maria. Unless someone can provide you with quantitative data on the incentives of recycling - the incentives, that is, for YOU to recycle. Obviously, pork-barrelers that grab tons of tax dollars "spreading awareness" have incentives, as do municipalities with money to gain, but unless manufacturing companies and recycling companies can pass along their profits to you, why would you expend YOUR capital (time, effort, money, energy) giving THEM your resources (whatever raw material can be gleaned from your garbage).
Jake, Charlottesville, VA
Recycling is so much a part of our culture that it might as well be a religion. More people sort their trash into recycling bins than vote. Recycling is a waste of time, money and in many ways, actually hurts the environment.
First, recycling paper does not save the rainforest. Almost all the deforestation around the equator is done to open new farmland or for building materials, according to the Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industries.
In fact, we have more trees in the U.S. right now than we have had at any point in the last 100 years — and it’s not because of recycling. Logging companies are interested in making a profit for as long as possible. The result is that they are actually planting more trees each year than they are cutting down. Some economists argue that recycling paper actually results in fewer trees, because if there is less demand for new paper, companies have less incentive to plant trees. Additionally, recycling paper requires the old paper to be “de-inked,” a process resulting in toxic chemicals we can’t recycle.
Another common myth is that we are running out of landfill space at the risk of being buried in our own garbage. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates that Americans produces about 200 million tons of trash each year, so it’s a natural concern to have. But don’t be fooled: We have room. Professor Clark Wiseman of Gonzaga University estimates that we could fit all of our trash for the next thousand years in one 44-square-mile landfill.
And it’s not like landfills are just a giant pile of garbage anyway. Modern landfills cover each day’s trash with fresh soil and collect the methane from the decomposing materials to sell to power companies. Grass can be planted, and parks and golf courses can be built over the buried waste. The Toyon Canyon landfill in Los Angeles is one modern landfill that practices methane collection and will eventually be a park.
Recycling can also be harmful to the environment, since it’s a manufacturing process with all of the associated harmful by-products. Additionally, curbside recycling programs require more trucks on the road, more fossil fuels burned and so forth.
Not all recycling is inefficient. Recycled aluminum is the notable exception, requiring only about 5 percent of the energy needed to produce new metal. People recycle pop cans because someone is willing to pay them for it. The rest of the perceived economic benefit from recycling comes in the form of subsidies worth $8 billion — your money — from the federal government.
Professor Daniel Benjamin of Clemson University estimates that recycling costs about 35 percent more than conventional waste disposal. The government should quit supporting recycling ad nauseam. If something is worth the money, it will be recycled.
So when you are done reading this newspaper, save the environment and money — throw it in the trash.
By Tim Hadachek
Jason , Suwanee
I like your tshirts and stickers
austin carroll, villa rica
Why recycle? We're all gonna die. Where would we all be now if our predecessors had the same live for today "f" tomorrow/what's in it for me right now mentality? A colony under Britsh rule?
Phil, Gainesville
the south is 20 years behind what has already happenned up north- this area needs more gov't support and education; and people to be less narrowminded "this is the way we do it here" attitude
emily, kennesaw
You don't recycle cause you're a lazy ____.
Britney, Miami
Way to go Maria. I do not recycle either. My garbage men do not offer me a lower rate for recycling. If they are making money selling the stuff they should pass the savings off to me if I am doing the sorting for them. The earth has been cooling anyway. The only thing I do not like about you is your hyphenated last name. Choose a name and stick with it.
Mathew, Monroe,GA
I agree we should recycle. I just disagree with the way it's done. 100% of the garbage humans produce is recyclable. All of it. Everything. So recycling should be done by the people who pick up the trash.
Magents can pick out most metal items. Shaker machines can sort out glass and the rest of the metal. A water bath can take away most food items, as well as turn most paper to mulch.
From there, the remaining trash can be sorted by prisoners, assuming measures are taken to prevent them from hiding weapons.
Everything can be recycled, at a much lower cost than we pay now, to recycle a small percentage.
Garison, Albany
its very easy, like riding a bike. its worth it and you'll feel good about it. there is power in numbers so every little bit helps, you will be a pathologist so you will see some amazing things in your career at a microscopic level and you will change your mind. you'll feel like its your duty as an american!! watch
tee nelson, bluffton sc
Pretty sure those cans will get you some money to buy new clothes:)
Jenna, Hanson
Hi Maria,
I think you're right on. If recycling is so damned PARAMOUNT, then why does Waste Mgmt give you such a rinky-dink little bin? I live alone and can fill it up in a couple of days.
I'm thinking they chuck it with the rest of the garbage anyway; as if they really have the staff required to separate and clean all this crap? Yeah right.
WAKE UP, SUCKERS!
DUKE, 'THE ATL'
In typical American fashion you are completely oblivious to what is going on around you. You just consume, consume, consume. Wake up! Look around you - your society is NOT HEALTHY.
Phil, Amsterdam
You need to have your picture re-done its a horrible job, not an insult to you, its just that the hair looks weird...
As for Recycling- just do it! If you don't tommy will have us all living on Pluto "OH Wait! Pluto's not a planet!"
The Friend Nobody Likes., Pike Ga
I'm with you, Maria! It's more trouble than it's worth. I'd do it if it were easier, but no one picks up recycling like my trash. Why go out out of the way and spend more money for something that doesn't benefit us?
Patrick, Atlanta, GA
Ok Maria - woman to woman I have to tell you that it probably took more effort to put on your eyeliner this morning than it does to recycle. Just try it for one week..then see if you still think it's too much trouble
Anne, Savannah, GA
You need to go Green. Use e-bill to save trees. Recycle your plastic evertime u go to the grocery store. Buy the bags that you can take with you to any store to put your good's in. You should do this if you want the future generation's to have a place to live.
Johnny Ringo, Lawrenceville
it your plant to ,lazy is no excuse. we all have to do our part
Dean, lawrenceville
Typical American person: couln't care less about the world or anything else around them because they are the center of the universe.
Bob, Snellville
Sam, you're an ignorant redneck. We don't need that bassackwards thinking in this day and age my man. What if you needed a kidney or a heart transplant and you couldn't find one because people "already couldn't care less" about saving a life. Same thing applies here.
Go jump off a cliff.
Spence, Rome
Whoa! Insult much Jockomo? Seriously, if you don't want to recycle, it's fine by me. I already couldn't care less about recycling, but even if I was, comments like the one just below this wouldn't help any.
Sam, Acworth
Landfill space is diminishing, but amount of trash generated has stayed constant. If you want mandatory recycling to be legislated and your taxes to increase, then don't recycle...continue to be an idiot.
Jockomo, Austin
you should just recycle i mean to be honest i think your doing this for attention and want people to think you dont recycle but u truly want to
will, Atlanta
RECYCLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!RECYCLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!RECYCLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Why do you need to know why just do it! I will give you 70$ just for you to recycle!DO IT KNOW!RECYCLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I bet your just scared to!!!!!!!!!! Heck I'm going to tell the whole world that your scared to recycle
bobby, jubelife city
Maria- you should recycle because it makes you feel good inside. Who cares what happens when you recycle- this is all about image. While you are at it, you can be libtard #1 and drive a Prius so you can show your neighbors how much money and time you are willing to waste on making yourself look cool and progressive.
Nick, Atlanta
Good Morning Maria, Why should you recycle is because first you need to save the Earth. Second you do not want your backyard to be a land field do you. and third is your helping the Envioroment.
Alfredo Lozano, Phoenix AZ.
Anything that is for the better takes some effort. You're beautiful on the outside, now lets work on the inside, start recycling.
P.S. Thornton needs to return to the dark ages.
Karen Key, Monticello, GA
Anything that is for the better takes some effort. You're beautiful on the outside, now lets work on the inside, start recycling.
P.S. Thorton needs to return to the dark ages.
Karen Key, Monticello, GA
You are a VERY smart girl about all the other parts of your life so...don't make this complicated. Get educated, get the facts on how to Recycle4Georgia.org and make recycling part of your life. Done.
Zazu, Cumming
Me and 2 other friends of mine have a website- i think you need to check it out. if you get together with some of you girl friends you guys can have fun recycling. heres our site:
http://www.freewebs.com/eco-friendlyfriends/
Kendall, Milton, GA
Just think how much better you'd look if you weren't so ridiculous.
Joe, Snellville
I agree Maria, recyling is a complete waste of time. Garbage belongs in the trash can. If soneome wants to sort it out and paw through it at the dump, more power to them.
I couldn't care any less about what happens to the planet after I'm dead and gone. I don't have any kids, aint gonna have any kids, and don't give a damn about your kids.
By the way, I think its perfectly cool to throw your coke bottle out the window of the car when you're driving down the road. Makes a cool noise when it hits the sign. Also keeps the car clean...
C. M. Thornton, III, Winder
Girl, even Oprah recycles! I mean, of COURSE Oprah recycles. If she has the time to do it, we ALL do. http://www.oprah.com/slideshow/oprahshow/oprahshow1_ss_20070420/15
Julie, Stone Mountain
Maria- You don't have to go full throttle right away. Poco a poco. Start with just your magazines and catalogs. Get a cute container from the Container Store and designate it as your "recycling bin" next to your trash. Before long you will see how fast it fills up. PS. You won't have to take your trash out as often!
Sofia , Atlanta (Buckhead)
Maria--Being in the medical field should give you reason enough to do everything you possibly can to protect our environment--everyone can do one simple thing that collectively makes a huge difference. Start by recycling just one thing everyday!
Glo, Atlanta