what really stinks is the local collectors not accepting things that are recyclable and have the logo. Styrofoam for example, and certain numbers of plastic. I want to recycle things but can't because the gov't contracted company doesn't accept it.

Plastic waste represents one of the greatest threats to the world's environment, and almost anything that serves to reduce the amount of plastics being produced and discarded should be encouraged. Environmental rights are essential human rights, and all persons should take responsibility for protecting the world around us. Human security and sustainable development are two of the major tasks of the UN, and all nations – members or not – should comply with its norms. This entails implementing One World under One Set of Laws and giving international law precedence over domestic law. All nations should comply with the UN Charter, the Paris climate agreement and other relevant pacts. For more, see the Charter for Permanent Peace.

You above all people should know how easily a country can suffer under the dictates of a foreign government. At one time Chinese coastal cities were divided up by european colonial powers.
You above all people should know how easily a centralized government can be corrupted into a totalitarian regime that doesnt recognize individual or human rights. Over 70 million people were killed in China under the Maoist Cultural Revolution.
Cooperation among nations is good. A strong decentralized nation-state which recognizes the rights of the individual and local rule is good. A strong centralized government will eventually be corrupted into authoritarian rule, despotic rulers and there are many examples of it descending into mass murder/genocide.

Christopher's racism still going on with blatantly assuming Carl is Chinese, AND thus should think a certain way:
"You above all people should know how easily a country can suffer under the dictates of a foreign government."

In FACT, Carl makes a good point to say "implementing One World under One Set of Laws and giving international law precedence over domestic law."

Let's face it:
The concept of local governance is inherently xenophobic, just like "borders". Presumably a worldwide government would look out for greater good for EVERYONE WORLDWIDE not just the privileged!

Btw, any progress on banning comments from Christopher's fascist ilk or at least deleting them faster?

I guess that means no more take-out food. Unless you know a way of packing Chinese Food in cardboard.

Chinese food used to always come in those white cardboard cartons, except for soup.

We have incredible technology at our disposal. We need to push biodegradable and recycling and incinerating technologies further down the cost justification curve. We can do it. We are pushing renewable energy down the cost justification curve and both exhaustion of resources and pollution are far bigger problems.

Using gene technology to implant nitrogen fixing capabilities into our agricultural crops would eliminate the need for a large scale use of fertilizers which inturn create deadzones in our estuaries, wetlands, lakes, rivers, coastlines...etc.

Moving crops like lettuce into factories which can produce 4x the crop harvesting to crops planted in fields is another technology moving down the cost justification curve.

The City of Buffalo's recent 75% overnight increase in garbage fees should, in theory, produce higher recycling rates as homeowners and landlords reduce the size of their garbage totes in an effort to keep costs in line.

Or maybe it wont--but at least the city will get more money from those who can least afford it!

How about mandating States to build fully capable recycling facilities with the help of federal incentives.

The best thing for this planet is for us to be all gone.

Its true that over population is the biggest problem on the planet. Pollution and desertification and extinction etc all come from over population but even here all western/westernized nations are depopulating and depopulating rapidly (we depopulating nations arent the problem). The top3 most rapidly depopulating nations are Taiwan, South Korea and Japan. Excluding immigration, western/central/eastern europe and russia are all depopulating except for Poland and Hungary which recently banned abortion. South America and Mexico are stable or depopulating. Its the nations that are overpopulated, cannot support their population and are forcing their excess population onto other nations that will be a problem for the next 25-50 years. Last I heard the world population will not stabilize until 2050 but that just means depopulation will be balanced by over population. There will still be nations continuing to exceed the population they can support.

Clear away that thicket of words, and the message is "black and brown people should stop reproducing."

If your nation has a population that it can support then fine but if your nation cannot support the population it is creating and is exporting its population problems to other nations then thats a problem. The color or ethnicity or religion is not the issue. There is nothing wrong with practicing self control.

China was once a poor nation, over populated, experiencing regular periods of famine until it got its population under control. In a few short years China will join the depopulating nations. India's population is still out of control. Take a look at the floating garbage patches in the worlds oceans and they come from the poorest overpopulated countries.