The Mises Institute monthly, free with membership Volume 13,
Number 12 Don't Recycle: Throw It Away! Roy E. Cordato Recycling
has a high moral status, mostly because kids come home with bad
information schools and, in turn, use it to intimidate their
parents. One poll revealed that 63% of kids have told Mom or Dad
to recycle. Parents, be ashamed no more! Throw that trash away.
There's no virtue in recycling trash that market won't pay you
for. What our kids are learning is grounded in left-wing
ideology, not fact One argument for recycling is that we are
running out of landfill space. A "public service" advertisement
on Nickelodeon shows images of a city being buried in its own
trash. This is typical of what passes for environmental
education. Just as hysterical are American Education
Publishing's "Comprehensive Curriculum" series and 50 Simple
Things Kids Can Do To In fact, there is no landfill shortage. If
all the solid waste for the next thousand years were put into a
single space, it would take up 44 mile