More Grist love on the 'Today' show

7 items you didn't know you could recycle

Posted by Katy Balatero at 9:17 AM on 06 Nov 2007

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This time around, Chip and Katharine chat about how to recycle unusual items:

How to recycle

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Recycling is NOT GREEN!

"Teacher, teacher! What's the best way to save the Earth?"

"I'm glad you asked Timmy! The best way to save the Earth is to SHIP plastics and metals to a special location and MELT them at high temperatures (using tons and tons of coal), and pour what's left over into the water system! Then the new materials can be used to make inferior products that nobody wants!"

"But that doesn't save the Earth!"

"That's the point of recycling, Timmy! It's to keep people from actually saving the earth by relieving their guilt. Then, they can keep on purchasing plastic and metal without feeling bad, and industry can keep its costs down! Isn't our industrial system ingenious?!"

by zacaroni at 1:48 PM on 06 Nov 2007

"Today"

Well, IMHO, Chip and Sarah should have their own variety show. But if what they had to say about recycling seemed a bit off to such critics as Zacaroni, blame the "Today" people, who provided the frame, not Grist. Note Matt Lauer's confused report on "Dogs in Greenland," as more evidence that "Today" needs to be taken with a large grain of salt: they are not any more "direct descendants of wolves" than is Little White Dog; and the hardships they have had to endure, as part of their long cooperation with human beings in the Arctic, is a subject that certainly deserves more attention.

Chickens deserve our true friendship! So do fish! So do other sentient beings! Let us learn to be kind.

by caniscandida at 4:17 PM on 06 Nov 2007

I'm pretty sure ...

... Zacaroni's post was a joke, a sly parody of the shrill activist who knows no sense of proportion.

I do love a dry wit.

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by David Roberts at 4:27 PM on 06 Nov 2007

A guy asked me today if I was a tree hugger

or if I rode my hybrid bike because it was faster than using a car. I told him it was because it's faster. There is a well developed stereotype or caricature of what an environmentalist is supposed to be and Chip is obligated to play that role for the the viewing audience.

In the end, it all comes down to biodiversity. Poison Darts--Protecting the biodiversity of our world

by biodiversivist at 10:35 PM on 06 Nov 2007

Great!

Excellent work Gristers! Feel the mass media progress.

Imagine hearing an explanation of the difference between plugin hybrids and fuel farming as it relates to GHG disaster, keep this up and that could happen.

Imagine that question asked during a presidential candidate debate. Hehehey.

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by amazingdrx at 6:58 AM on 07 Nov 2007

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