Ken LaCorte

It's all kind of a, yeah, it's a scam.

It's a scam.

When it's having people do things, spend money, spend resources to say that you're accomplishing something that you're not accomplishing, that's really the best word to use for it.

And that's different

saying everybody involved in that process is bad in any way, shape, or form.

I mean, you know, they are trying to help the environment.

They're separating out the good plastics from the bad plastics.

They're individually doing good things in a macro way that turns out that it's a wasteful process.

Yeah.

Yeah.

We send it off to countries like Malaysia and they either bury it in their backyard.

They burn it, which really isn't the ideal thing.

Or, you know, somehow it ends up in the oceans and bad places.

The United States used to export a huge amount of things to be recycled.

I mean, imagine that you're you're shipping it across the world, too.

And then because you know that they can do things over there that you go to jail doing in the United States.

So that's all one of those, gee, this isn't helping the earth.

It's just making money for people and it's making people feel better.

Because when you send it off to a third world country and they do whatever the heck they're going to do with it, it's not good.

Part of that was a media hype as the environmental movement was really getting going in the late 60s, early 70s.