Recycle policy
When you hear about recycle policy, you can think: these are good guys! But you will be wrong. Of course you was probably go throughout school system, when you were bombarded with "disasterous facts" about global warming, trash apocalypse and other shit. Of course, nature works thrash-free, and only humans create problems (from what a planet they came from?).
But, I will show just three simple facts that nature is not as harmonical as you think. And humans are not as harmful as a nature itself.
1) Oxygene catastrophe - yes, there was a massive dead-out of living organisms. Rocks was oxydated, atmosphere was changed - forever since! This event led to Huronian Glaciation. So oxygene was a first natural trash, and it exist about 3 billion years. So tell me about aluminium can or a plastic bag!
2) Carbonate rock - another way of the organisms to use carbon dioxide. How much this process is? Look:
White Cliffs of Dover, England. There are really islands of it! This rock was formed between 145 and 66 millions years ago. So how long it takes for aluminium can to disappear? Of course it also can potentially lead glaciation - and there were after all of that.
3) Petroleum (also known as a crude oil) is also a way for biosphere to freeze out itself. 70% of oil deposits were formed in the Mesozoic age (252 to 66 million years ago), 20% were formed in the Cenozoic age (65 million years ago), and only 10% were formed in the Paleozoic age (541 to 252 million years ago). Even 200 years ago there was no specie to consume all the amount of oil.
Now we, the humans, reverse the trend and - carefully! - part of this natural trash turn into plastic trash. Of course human are bad, nature is good.
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In fact, trash is not a problem at all in the USA. In Russia, with half-USA population and a great territory, two thirds of which is permafrost, it is a crazy joke to recycle. In fact we can earn money on it, especially if we'll use kimberlite pipes in Yakutia.
In fact, we use it on atomic trash. What about all other stuff?