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Waste Recycling Is Big Business

Recycling in all forms is wrong. Wrong for the environment and wrong for business. It's been proven, time after time, to actually cause more HARM to the environment than good. From a business perspective, it hurts your profits and burdens your staff by forcing them to do something that wastes time and ultimately hurts, not helps, the environment. Those of you who promote recycling need to learn the facts and stop listening to "green" idiots, with their feel-good agendas, convincing you that recycling is somehow right.

The title of this article says it all: Recycling is big business--for those who profit from it, brainwashing the masses into believing it is helping the environment, when all they care about is making money.

Below is the comment I wrote here when this stupid topic came up in March. Our company is on track to save an estimated $51k this year alone, by doing the right thing and NOT recycling. So far, we have over 100 employees committed to not recycling at home, rewarding them with one extra vacation day.

If you are encouraging recycling at YOUR company then I guarantee you that your profits, along with your company morale and, most importantly, our environment, is hurting.
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After years of wasting valuable time, money, facility space and other resources, our company initiated a ZERO-RECYCLING policy last year. In each of our six of our plant locations, we eliminated all indoor recycling receptacles in our offices and on our manufacturing lines. All outdoor industrial recycling bins were returned to our disposal company. All steps of the manufacturing process which directly involved recycling to any degree were put to a stop. We completely eliminated the company position of “material handler” and re-hired that individual to work in an open manufacturing position. All employees are forbidden to recycle at work and we encourage them to follow this same policy at home. We conducted workshops on this initiative for existing employees and all new employees also receive it as part of their orientation. Starting this year, we reward each employee who signs an agreement not to recycle at home one extra paid vacation day.

Why did we do this, especially given the current popularity of acting “green”? Because, after doing months of research and investigations (conducted both in-house and by two outside, independent agencies), we realized that recycling is just a “make-work” initiative, one that does NOTHING to benefit business or the environment, and recycling’s primary goal is to make uneducated, “green” people feel good about themselves.

As a “make-work” initiative, the main goal of recycling, and the companies that do it, is to create fancy-sounding jobs for people who are otherwise unemployable. We would rather create and contribute to a real, necessary, productive workforce economy, vs. standing standing behind a “green” facade. Most importantly, recycling and the companies that do it, have been proven, time after time, to actually do more HARM to the environment than good.

Bottom line: Recycling has been proven–without a doubt–to be nothing more than an expensive economic and environmental fallacy. Here is more information we used in our research:

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By completely eliminating recycling and initiating a ZERO-RECYCLING policy, our company will save, on average, close to $40k/year, not including the salary of the “material handler” position which were able to completely eliminate. Even better yet, we have seen a huge increase in worker productivity, now that our employees–particularly in manufacturing–are able to focus on their WORK and not be burdened by recycling getting in the way.

The success of our trend-breaking initiative has drawn the attention of other companies in our industry and beyond. Almost every other day, another company calls us, asking for information on how they can eliminate recycling. We have hosted seven walk-through tours last year alone, including a company from Finland and one from the UK, and our VP of Operations has spoken at two business conferences so far this year, with another two scheduled this month and next. Although it is obviously somewhat controversial, we are very proud of our initiative and why we are doing it.

Clearly, in today’s business environment, companies large and small are finally realizing how damaging the scam of recycling truly is–to their bottom line and to the environment. If you, or your company, thinks it’s good to recycle, good to pretend to act “green”, and good to let the fallacy of recycling get in the way of real work, please get educated and start doing the right thing TODAY. We did, and we, and our shareholders, could not be happier.

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