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JL;DR SUMMARY Cindy Scarr explores the complexities of recycling through a visit to the Ocean County Recycling Center in Lakewood. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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ChinaLakewoodWaste ManagementEnvironmental ImpactRecyclingSkepticismVirtue SignalingOcean CountySingle StreamSolid Waste

Places mentioned

Lakewood, New Jersey, United States
"Located along Lakewoods New Hampshire Avenue is the Ocean County Recycling Center."
Little Egg Harbor, New Jersey, United States
"Thats the sum total of what goes into the yellow bins from Lakewood, the countys largest city in its northern tip, down to Little Egg Harbor in its south."
China
"most of what goes into recycling never becomes anything useful, that recycling is an act of left-wing virtue signaling, and that China is somehow benefitting from Americans discarding soda bottles and junk mail in separate bins."

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