8:27 Procrastination: CMC myth dispelled!

Probably every CMCer has at one point heard the claim that CMC doesn’t really recycle– that they take the trash from the normal bins and the recycling bins and throw them out together. Thus the claim, “why should we bother recycling!” Using expert testimony from her fellow classmates and CMC staff members, Helena Bottemiller et al show that the college DOES recycle, but only if we all stop being lazy and actually sort our trash. Probably the best thing to come out of Energy and the Environment class projects in years!

Tina Fan

YES
Tina Fan

YES
Kristine Grigsby

Thanks for the et al shout out. I know, I have a pretty complicated name.
Kristine Grigsby

Thanks for the et al shout out. I know, I have a pretty complicated name.
Andy Fastow

At no point in that video did you show them actually recycling things that were put in the recycling bin. If you don’t do that, how are you actually disproving any rumors? And how the heck are we supposed to know what can and can’t be recycled? You make it sound like everyone just needs to “sort” their recycling, but what does that even mean?

I always recycle when they have those bins that say: “plastic” or “paper”, but if I don’t know I just don’t because neither does anyone else. They inevitably become garbage when the trash bin is: (a) full or (b) not differentiated by the trash except for the recycling symbol.

The tone of the video was very hoighty toighty. Get off your high horse.
Andy Fastow

At no point in that video did you show them actually recycling things that were put in the recycling bin. If you don’t do that, how are you actually disproving any rumors? And how the heck are we supposed to know what can and can’t be recycled? You make it sound like everyone just needs to “sort” their recycling, but what does that even mean?

I always recycle when they have those bins that say: “plastic” or “paper”, but if I don’t know I just don’t because neither does anyone else. They inevitably become garbage when the trash bin is: (a) full or (b) not differentiated by the trash except for the recycling symbol.

The tone of the video was very hoighty toighty. Get off your high horse.
Loosen Up

It was supposed to be “hoighty toighty,” it’s ridiculous that people don’t recycle. It’s so easy!
Loosen Up

It was supposed to be “hoighty toighty,” it’s ridiculous that people don’t recycle. It’s so easy!
Steel Reserve

I approve
Steel Reserve

I approve
Bullsh!t

So either every student magically sorts their stuff or story house lumps everything in the trash? I’d expect North Korea to stop their nuclear program before I’d expect all CMCers to sort their recycling.Having had 8:10 classes every year every monday I see the housekeeping crew throw plastic bags full of glass and aluminium cans down from second floor northquad, only to break on impact with the ground. Story house doesn’t care about recycling, students don’t care about recycling. By taking one side you cheapen your argument. Real conservationists are AGAINST recycling. They are for reuseability. The biggest donors to earth day and recycling lobbies are megaconglomerates like coca cola as they profit off of recycling and not reuseability. People feel good when they recycle and don’t enact real change. Recycling is the antichrist of the green movement. Heck, more people recycle in America than vote. Real change occurs from reusing not recycling. Americans should feel bad not good about wasting resources.

As an aside, the whole utility of recycling argument is still up in the air. More trees are in the US today than 100 years ago due to the lumber industry/capitalism. Plastic at least used to cost more to recycle than to make new. Same with paper. I think those numbers have come down but this recycling hysteria is insane. Glass and aluminum and other metals generally are worth recycling. This is why we have CRV and monetary incentives to recycle. The other recyclables are up to debate on the efficacy. See Penn and Teller’s take on recycling here until google video takes it down.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1444391672891013193
Bullsh!t

So either every student magically sorts their stuff or story house lumps everything in the trash? I’d expect North Korea to stop their nuclear program before I’d expect all CMCers to sort their recycling.Having had 8:10 classes every year every monday I see the housekeeping crew throw plastic bags full of glass and aluminium cans down from second floor northquad, only to break on impact with the ground. Story house doesn’t care about recycling, students don’t care about recycling. By taking one side you cheapen your argument. Real conservationists are AGAINST recycling. They are for reuseability. The biggest donors to earth day and recycling lobbies are megaconglomerates like coca cola as they profit off of recycling and not reuseability. People feel good when they recycle and don’t enact real change. Recycling is the antichrist of the green movement. Heck, more people recycle in America than vote. Real change occurs from reusing not recycling. Americans should feel bad not good about wasting resources.

As an aside, the whole utility of recycling argument is still up in the air. More trees are in the US today than 100 years ago due to the lumber industry/capitalism. Plastic at least used to cost more to recycle than to make new. Same with paper. I think those numbers have come down but this recycling hysteria is insane. Glass and aluminum and other metals generally are worth recycling. This is why we have CRV and monetary incentives to recycle. The other recyclables are up to debate on the efficacy. See Penn and Teller’s take on recycling here until google video takes it down.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1444391672891013193

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