Is it Easy being Green?

In an earlier blog I suggested that this is the year that whole global warming farce will face some tough questions. It looks like the whole "green" thing may come under some tough questions also.

With prices for recycling dropping like my belly, it seems that being green doesn't make sense unless it makes dollars and cents, at least according to Cory Tomczyk, owner of IROW, a waste hauler in Mosinee.

In an article in the Wausau Daily Herald,

"Once an industry that could turn profits, recycling is costing waste haulers and material processors more money than it would to throw recyclable material in a landfill, according to business owners and officials."

So your city/county/state/country makes you recycle and what may be the results?

The Solid Waste Management Board in Portage County, where about 75 percent of recycled material from Marathon County ends up, will explore changes that could include charging a fee for recycling, taking a recycling recess or asking that state money from landfill fees be diverted to municipalities to offset costs.

The charge for recycled material would be passed down to municipalities and eventually residents, said Meleesa Johnson, solid waste administrator for Marathon and Portage counties.

How often are we going to see mandated laws and then the people will have to pay to follow these laws. It's getting past crazy. Legislators need to step back and do a reality check.