28 Replies to “Gary Doer Environmentalism”

  1. Gee, they don’t recycle all that stuff? “WTF?” says the dedicated Blue Box sorter, “Duh!” says the cynical Phantom.
    Tell you what happens here in Green Ontario, most of your Blue Box goes straight to the land fill. How do I know? I asked the guys at the recycling station.
    I balance what I see Dalton The Pure say on TV against what the guy who actually delivers the garbage. Shazam, a discrepancy! Whom should I trust, the dirty ass, beer swilling truck driver guy, or lily white metro sexual politician guy?
    I’m all a twitter with indecision.

  3. Yah it links – I’m getting a SDAvalaunch…
    I’m betting there is a couple of hundred grand siting there in refund money. The stupid thing is that Manitoban’s pay a recycling fee for the damn things and don’t get nothing back.

  4. Recycling is at the top of the list of all of the enviro-clusterf#$%s. The city of Kingston just admitted that they have been streaming a good percentage of plastics from the recycling process to the landfill. It all could have been avoided if the leftards of my fair city would have allowed the military to build their incinerator 20 odd years ago. But, oh no, the leftoids had to insist on the 3 R’s. What a crock of idiocy. The only people who benefit from recycling are the ones hauling it.

  5. reminds me of a pile of weed spray canisters I saw outside Marwayne AB a few years back. Huge pile, and gettin bigger.

  7. real world “environmentalism” NOT according to Gore.
    3w.edge.org/documents/archive/edge219.html#dysonf
    “…all the fuss about global warming is grossly exaggerated. Here I am opposing the holy brotherhood of climate model experts and the crowd of deluded citizens who believe the numbers predicted by the computer models. Of course, they say, I have no degree in meteorology and I am therefore not qualified to speak. But I have studied the climate models and I know what they can do. The models solve the equations of fluid dynamics, and they do a very good job of describing the fluid motions of the atmosphere and the oceans. They do a very poor job of describing the clouds, the dust, the chemistry and the biology of fields and farms and forests. They do not begin to describe the real world that we live in. The real world is muddy and messy and full of things that we do not yet understand. It is much easier for a scientist to sit in an air-conditioned building and run computer models, than to put on winter clothes and measure what is really happening outside in the swamps and the clouds. That is why the climate model experts end up believing their own models.”
    h/t 3w.americanthinker.com/blog/2007/08/freeman_dyson_joins_globwarm_s.html

  8. How about breaking into shards and making enviroweenies roll in it.
    Ok, It’s beer o’clock here, I’m off to drink myself less mean.
    Heck, you could crush and mix it with concrete or something, glass has got to be decent filler aggregate.

  9. The Blue Box program requires a municipal bureaucracy, unionized government employees, well paid managers, government contracts for this, that and the other thing – plus left wing city council politicians to run it all. In other words – MILLIONS OF DOLLARS – taxpayer’s dollars.
    A 10 cent bottle deposit would eliminate this lucrative new ‘industry’ – taxpayer’s dollars couldn’t be used to buy off anyone…

  10. Would someone please tell the militant ecoweenies how bad for the environment newspaper de-inking is so that the NYT’s can disappear faster with pressure from the left as a its just reward.
    My community in Florida doesn’t collect glass anymore. I’m sure it is because it’s not cost effective.

  12. “you could crush and mix it with concrete or something”
    That was the initial intent but got waylaid because the glass might be “contaminated”. For duration – I picked out some 750 ml glass 7-up bottles that you don’t see anymore because of Ann Murray vs fresh stuff that you could still smell the liquor in.

  13. on CBCpravda “the National” the other night they were touting the benefits of the garbage strike, saying how recycling had increased and people were not wasting so much, they mixed the overdub with pictures of people with blue boxes along with pictures of overflowing dumpsters and rats scurrying along the street . ( at least I think it was rats- we dont see them here in liberal free Albirda)
    but it was the cheery report at the same time as the rats in the picture that got me.

  14. We’re cursing future generations with our waste. Dittersdorf’s slide showing New Yorkers’ annual garbage output-15 square blocks, 20 stories high-looked frightening because the trash was sitting, uncompressed, in the middle of the city.
    But consider a different perspective-a national, long-term perspective. A. Clark Wiseman, an economist at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Wash., has calculated that if Americans keep generating garbage at current rates for 1,000 years, and if all their garbage is put in a landfill 100 yards deep, by the year 3000 this national garbage heap will fill a square piece of land 35 miles on each side.
    This doesn’t seem a huge imposition in a country the size of America.
    Source: Recycling Is Garbage
    http://www.williams.edu/HistSci/curriculum/101/garbage.html
    So..a thousand years of garbage …only covers an area 35 miles by 35 miles by 100 yards deep.
    And if it still pains you to think of depriving posterity of that 35-mile square, remember that the loss will be only temporary. Eventually, like previous landfills, the mounds of trash will be covered with grass and become a minuscule addition to the nation’s 150,000 square miles of parkland.

  15. Ah,the Doer recycle plan is a beauty alright!I happen to work for one of the Gov’t agencies in Man.and when I informed my Resource Co-ord.that I had some old client contracts (expired) kicking around my home,and was going to burn them,she told me..’oh no,you have to bring them in to the office,to be hauled over 120 kms.to Wpg in a huge paper recycle truck,to be “properly destroyed”…hmm,I guess paper won’t burn..but according to Rosie the Riveter, steel melts.Makes sense to me!

  17. private enterprise always wins out always will. Set a market price for recyclables and boot out the unionized municipals, And watch it work.

  18. Did not Newton and Kramer try to take advantage of such a situation in an episode of Seinfeld?

  19. The City of Regina announced last week that they had been sending all glass dumped in recycling bins around the city to the landfill for the last year. Too bad they didn’t bother telling us. I could have been doing that myself. Assholes.

  20. My apologies if this has been linked here before:
    ==================
    Here’s a story you haven’t heard, and you should have.
    An intelligence source, working for a government agency. He’s not a spy, he’s an analyst. He uses computers to crunch numbers and at the end of his work, out pops the truth that was hiding in the original data. Let’s call him “Mann.”
    The trouble with Mann is, he has an ideology. He knows what he wants his results to be. And the original numbers aren’t giving him that data. So the agency he works for won’t be able to persuade people to fight the war he wants to fight.
    Well, that’s not acceptable.
    ==================
    The full text is here:
    http://www.ldsmag.com/ideas/070313goodprint.html

  21. GREEN is the new black. Amazing what you find underneath once you scratch the surface.
    Mr. Paul Decker

  23. Ah yes, another piece of this fine blogging journalism which is supposedly oh so superior to the mainstream media. Some guy posts his anecdotal observation of a pile of glass and goes on to describe what he personally wants it to signify without doing so much as even contacting the people that put it there. God I hope blogging takes over. (/sarcasm)
    That said, I’m no fan of a lot of mainstream media, whether it be CBC or Fox News, but articles like this hardly make the point that blogging is any kind of a viable replacement.

  24. All the trash thats left after a bunch of enviromentalists wackos attending one of their EARTH DAY events

  25. IIRC, the primary ingredient in glass is silica or sand which is also one of the most common materials on the planet.

  26. Yes, Steve… perception is reality.
    That’s not a pile of thousands of glass bottles.
    That’s a construct of a blogger who didn’t check with official sources to determine whether or not it exists.

  27. I Know a couple of kids with .22s that’ll shred up those cans for nothing 😉

  28. So Steve, when was the last time any “news” organization of bias Left or bias Kinda Center (we don’t have any bias Right news orgs, bummer) ever told you -anything- about where that blue box stuff actually goes or how much it costs?
    I at least asked the guy that drives the truck. You can do that too if you want, and then you’ll know right off if I’m full of it or not.
    Internet is checkable. I like checkable.

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