In time, the City of Pensacola, the Escambia County Solid Waste Department, EC School District (for a time), commercial haulers and Santa Rosa County became customers. WFR outgrew their facility and the issue was compounded last summer with the heavy rains we experienced in July, which damaged much of the materials awaiting transfer to the end buyer.

What is the cost to the environment to ship the stuff all the way to Georgia? Is the company producing pollution in the process of recycling? What’s the point of recycling to protect the environment if worse pollutants are pumped in the air in the process? Many of the Recycling centers are more for show than real protection of the environment.

I wish those who put on a big show of being protectors of the environment would take ALL the costs TO the environment in mind before they start demanding, regulating, and requiring changes. Much of what we try to recycle is not processed in a clean way so it produces pollution. It they buy an electric car they think they are saving the world. WRONG! It requires digging up the raw materials to make the batteries. All done with big polluting trucks and cranes. Huge ships moving it to processing plants that produce tons of pollution per finished batteries with much more destructive chemicals released than what a modern car releases. But what about the charge? Where does that electricity come from? Not a solar panel that’s for sure. I have yet to meet an electric car owner that uses their own solar panels to charge the car of course then again the panels are made in a hugely polluting way too.

I WANT recycling and to save the environment just for it to be done in a way that does NOT PRODUCE EVEN MORE POLUTION than it saves from release. If that is even possible.