Why don't my wealthy friends recycle?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Laziness and selfishness.

This.

[Anonymous]

Time is money

[Anonymous]

How come the normal poors that i know don't recycle?

[Anonymous]

I'm wealthy and my family recycles. Actually, the wealthy people that I know all recycle too. How many wealthy families do you know?

[Anonymous]

This thread is such a crock.

Your income has no correlation to recycling! OP - you happen to live in a neighborhood where people dont recycle and they happen to be executives....I bet if you go to a neighborhood with non-execs you will find the same trend. There are people that believe in it and people that cant be bothered.

By they way, if you EVER came to me (as a neighbor) and suggested ways that I could recycle Id probably kick your ass.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I see the recycling bin right next to the trash can at the ofice or at metro, and all it takes is to DROP the recyclable trash into the recycle bin, but often I see aluminum cans, plastic bottles, newspapers (in metro), in the TRASH.

Me too and it makes me cringe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This thread is such a crock.

Your income has no correlation to recycling! OP - you happen to live in a neighborhood where people dont recycle and they happen to be executives....I bet if you go to a neighborhood with non-execs you will find the same trend. There are people that believe in it and people that cant be bothered.

By they way, if you EVER came to me (as a neighbor) and suggested ways that I could recycle Id probably kick your ass.

I think the OP just wants to wage some good old fashioned class warfare. She is just upset because she is an underachiever in her circle...a big wannabe and the only thing she feels superior at is recycling.

[Anonymous]

This is the stupidest thread. I know wealthy people who recycle, some who don't. Same goes for people I know in lower income brackets -- some recycle religiously, others not at all.

Why do wealthy people only come out when the sun is up? I mean, I saw 5 of them walking down the street just this morning.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I see the recycling bin right next to the trash can at the ofice or at metro, and all it takes is to DROP the recyclable trash into the recycle bin, but often I see aluminum cans, plastic bottles, newspapers (in metro), in the TRASH.

Me too and it makes me cringe.

Maybe they aren't empty bottles. I certainly don't throw away juice or soda bottles that still have liquid in them. I'm militant about recycling at home and in my office, but it's not always so easy to do it right outside.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because if they're smart enough to be in such high professional positions, they're smart enough to realize recycling is pretty much a crock. Most of the stuff gets tossed into landfills anyway. The world is better off with them making oodles of taxable income with their time than separating trash that will all go to the same place.

I agree. It costs more to sort all that garbage out for the very small amount of mulch that is made. The rest -- altogether in the dump. A big reuniting of the trash. Recycling is such a crock!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I really don't understand this. We're rather upper middle class with a $260,000 HHI. We have hardly any trash at all. Certainly never more than one bin a week, if that. We recycle all our bottle, plastic, aluminum, paper etc. We reuse as much as we can. I've noticed over the 15 years that I've lived in MoCo that most of my wealthiest friends (CFO's, VP's of this or that company) don't even bother to try to recycle. It all goes in the trash. Some of these families have 4 garbage cans full of trash 2x/week! I used to try to encourage them and even offered to help set up some systems for them but they just can't wrap their minds around it. It really isn't that complicated for God's sake! These are smart, well-educated, thoughtful, compassionate people for the most part. I consider them my friends but we definitely don't agree on reducing our collective impact.

So if you feel that you fall into this category please explain to me what the barriers are that keep you from recycling. Thanks

I bet your neighbors loved you wanting to go through their trash, and all the helpful suggestions. We have a bunch of dogie poop in the yard. Can you come over?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Laziness and selfishness.

This.

My brother is in the "1%" and doesn't recycle. He gives all sorts of reasons, ended with the great promise of "I'm going to begin", but the bottom line is he is lazy and selfish. It take no effort to put a newspaper, glass bottle, or aluminum can in Bin #2 than Bin #1. Recycling is a lifestyle.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I see the recycling bin right next to the trash can at the ofice or at metro, and all it takes is to DROP the recyclable trash into the recycle bin, but often I see aluminum cans, plastic bottles, newspapers (in metro), in the TRASH.

Me too and it makes me cringe.

Another cringer....

[Anonymous]

My wealthy friends and I all recycle the paper bands that bind our stacks of $100 bills and our empty bottles of Dom.

[Anonymous]

Wealthy people in America have a sense of entitlement and very little sense of personal responsibility. This lack of responsibility is actually rewarded in many industries (e.g., high risk industries like ibanking), so we as a society are promoting that sort of behavior on a fundamental level.

Hence, the sociopathic behavior you see from rich people in many facets of life (overleveraging assets, embezzling, ponzi schemes, unethically large golden parachutes and backscratching from cozy CEOs and their boards, fraud, corporate welfare, etc).