Recycling is Rubbish

Professor Kunihiko Takeda, vice-chancellor of the Institute of Science and Technology Research at Chubu University has something to say about recycling.

Recycling is rubbish:
It eats more energy and creates more waste than burning our garbage in high-tech incinerators. The most efficient way of getting rid of garbage is burning it all together. Why? Because in raw garbage, plastics turn into their own fuel so you don’t need to add anything else. Aluminum and steel should be recycled, though, as we need less energy for that than to produce them from scratch.

Fear is a very efficient weapon:
It produces the desired effect without much waste. Global warming has nothing to do with how much CO2 is produced or what we do here on Earth. For millions of years, solar activity has been controlling temperatures on Earth and even now, the sun controls how high the mercury goes. CO2 emissions make absolutely no difference one way or another. Soon it will cool down anyhow, once again, regardless of what we do. Every scientist knows this, but it doesn’t pay to say so. What makes a whole lot of economic and political sense is to blame global warming on humans and create laws that keep the status quo and prevent up-and-coming nations from developing. Global warming, as a political vehicle, keeps Europeans in the driver’s seat and developing nations walking barefoot.

Criticizing previous ideals is natural.
In the 1930s, militarism was considered best; in the 1960s, mass production and mass consumerism. Then in the 1990s the main topic was the environment. Every 30 years we switch what we believe in. This paradigm will pass, too.

Regardless of what folks say about recycling, I always do my bit but not only because I want to but because I have to - the garbage man wont take your rubbish unless its properly seperated out.
Do you practice recycling in your region by will or law? Do you think its worth recycling?
Video of Perfume doing a recycling vid. News from Japan Probe.