Speaker 1: Millions of Americans are still forced to separate their garbage
Speaker 1: from their recyclables, but more and more cities are now
Speaker 1: sending all the garbage and one big pile little landfill.
Speaker 1: After fifty years of lecturing us and pressuring us and
Speaker 1: demanding that we recycle everything to save the earth, cities
Speaker 1: are trashing their recycling programs because they're too expensive. One
Speaker 1: reason is the chi Coms. The chi Coms used to
Speaker 1: buy all of our recycled stuff, but they got tired
Speaker 1: of all the garbage that was mixed in, so in
Speaker 1: January eighteen, they stopped importing our junk. Another reason recycling
Speaker 1: programs are biting to dust they never made financial sense.
Speaker 1: Big trash haulers used recycling as a loss leader to
Speaker 1: snag the accounts they really wanted carting everyday trash from
Speaker 1: residences and industries. But now they're raising prices like corporations
Speaker 1: used to pretend they believed in global warming because they
Speaker 1: knew their customers did, but they never did. Now, without
Speaker 1: China's money and with haulers charging more, recycling has become
Speaker 1: a luxury cities cannot pay for. When cities were pushing
Speaker 1: recycling as a sure way to save the earth. They
Speaker 1: said we couldn't afford not to do it. Now those
Speaker 1: same people say we can't afford to do it, so
Speaker 1: audios recycling. But it doesn't matter because, according to Alexandria
Speaker 1: Ocasio Cortez, we only have twelve years to live anyway,
Speaker 1: So trash it all, folks, is not gonna matter in
Speaker 1: twelve years. Live it up.