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Recycling

posted 5 years ago by Sidha108 (2735)
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The film focuses on green energy sources such as wind turbines, solar panels, etc. and how they can be just as bad or worse for the environment than coal, gas, etc., but what about recycling and energy efficient products (i.e. LED TVs, fluorescent light bulbs)? Do those “green” practices have dark sides as well?

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

Yes. The energy used to recycle is terrible. There isn’t enough use for recycling so countries like Australia sell their “recyclables” to Asia wheee it ends up as land fill. It’s a con too,

[–] liscarkat (19396) 4 years ago

Recycling glass bottles uses more electricity and water, and causes more pollution, than manufacturing new glass.