What is sad and aggravating is that the only things that are consistently recycled are glass bottles, Aluminum cans, paper and cardboard. We really need to promote research to find better ways to recycle plastic.
Like many in the comments, I am sad to say most plastic “recycling” never gets recycled but ends up in the landfill. We simply have to move past plastic packaging. We had packaging before plastic, and we can have a new kind that actually doesn’t stay in the environment forever or kill the oceans or add so much to climate change. It just takes the will to change.
Meanwhile, Darryl burned gasoline from refined oil that required electricity from a coal burning power plant emitting carbon products while also emitting carbon products; leaving micro-rubber material on the roadway to be washed into the lakes and rivers polluting the water supply, etc.
Nobody seemed to notice that this is an example of what’s wrong with these kids: They shouldn’t have the power to coerce parents into doing whatever they want them to do! Zoe has been brainwashed!
Really Daryl? You let Zoe guilt you into wasting gas and time to go to a hazardous dump site, which in most cases people are not allowed, to find one bottle?? You are an idiot. Recycling is important but so is teaching your kids who and what is important and who is in charge.
Recycling would be a whole lot better if more than 10% of what we put in to it actually got recycled. For the most part, we’ve all been hooked by a bait and switch media campaign where we get warm fuzzy feelings about helping the environment when in reality very little recycling actually happens.
And now we are going to sit here and wait until the “recycling” truck comes by. We will then follow it to the same landfill and watch as the metal is sorted out and the rest is dumped on the same piles that you just had me go through.
That foot distracts from the responsible daughter. And the whole story reminds me of my unfortunate situation in that there is NO recycling here. It’s why PA is the landfill capital of the US.
While I am happy that Zoe is environmentally conscious, why did she wait till the garbage truck had already collected? Zoe should have encouraged Darryl earlier.
e.professor 8 months ago
Leave Zoey in the dump. The rest of the family would be much happier.
Ratkin Premium Member 8 months ago
I like the human foot in panel four. Nice touch.
thevideostoreguy 8 months ago
The irony is that that’s what actually happens regardless of the special bin.
Cornelius Noodleman 8 months ago
We have bags and bags of recyclables in the garage. If we ever take them somewhere we can park in the garage again.
Cactus-Pete 8 months ago
Nope, chances are it ends up in the trash again – and all that gas was wasted and added to climate change.
catchup 8 months ago
So we drive a huge SUV miles to recycle one small plastic bottle…
BenGMan 8 months ago
Smart girl.
Firebat 8 months ago
Whoa! That is one guilt trip tripper upper.
iggyman 8 months ago
Dads will do almost anything for their kids!
iggyman 8 months ago
The planet thanks you, Darryl!
iggyman 8 months ago
Ah, back to the old days of reusable soda bottles, cardboard milk cartons, much less plastic back then!
nosirrom 8 months ago
What is sad and aggravating is that the only things that are consistently recycled are glass bottles, Aluminum cans, paper and cardboard. We really need to promote research to find better ways to recycle plastic.
cdward 8 months ago
Like many in the comments, I am sad to say most plastic “recycling” never gets recycled but ends up in the landfill. We simply have to move past plastic packaging. We had packaging before plastic, and we can have a new kind that actually doesn’t stay in the environment forever or kill the oceans or add so much to climate change. It just takes the will to change.
DJohnny 8 months ago
I don’t get it. Are they both going to the dump, and to their own plastic recycling bin?
Oh! I get it! He’s having second thought when throwing it, and takes it home, to recycle it.
Then the question will be: Why on earth would he drive away first???
Second question: Why didn’t Zoe go out and recycle it herself? Or, better, put in the temporary storage used to collect different items?
makarnowski Premium Member 8 months ago
“There! It’s recycled!”?? She (and maybe he) has so much to learn….
GerryRoss 8 months ago
I’d like to know how Darryl knew which pile it was in.
Pluggergirl 8 months ago
nice catch, I didn’t notice it
Carl Premium Member 8 months ago
Wait till she learns it just means its going to a different landfill.
ctolson 8 months ago
Meanwhile, Darryl burned gasoline from refined oil that required electricity from a coal burning power plant emitting carbon products while also emitting carbon products; leaving micro-rubber material on the roadway to be washed into the lakes and rivers polluting the water supply, etc.
dalemcginnis 8 months ago
and then it winds up back in the same landfill
darcyandsimon 8 months ago
Hopefully by the time she’s grown up, this won’t be How It Works…
Munch 8 months ago
They wouldn’t let Daryl do that. You can’t dig through the dump anymore.
DawnQuinn1 8 months ago
That foot belongs to Jimmy Hoffa
Daltongang Premium Member 8 months ago
Recycling in America is a Joke.
rgulyash 8 months ago
That’s my wife. She will dig , or make me dig, thru the can and dispose it
Ermine Notyours 8 months ago
He should have picked up some E.T. cartridges while he was there.
Petemejia77 8 months ago
It’s gonna wind up back there anyway.
betseytacy 8 months ago
Nobody seemed to notice that this is an example of what’s wrong with these kids: They shouldn’t have the power to coerce parents into doing whatever they want them to do! Zoe has been brainwashed!
[Unnamed Reader - bddb15] 8 months ago
Why isn’t he recycling the can too?
mfrasca 8 months ago
Gomi shūshū laws.
mbkturner 8 months ago
And we have environmentally-responsible puberty
IndyW 8 months ago
Really Daryl? You let Zoe guilt you into wasting gas and time to go to a hazardous dump site, which in most cases people are not allowed, to find one bottle?? You are an idiot. Recycling is important but so is teaching your kids who and what is important and who is in charge.
eced52 8 months ago
Of course they spent ten times as much buying gas.
Zen-of-Zinfandel 8 months ago
Daryl is then fined for trespassing.
Anon4242 8 months ago
Recycling would be a whole lot better if more than 10% of what we put in to it actually got recycled. For the most part, we’ve all been hooked by a bait and switch media campaign where we get warm fuzzy feelings about helping the environment when in reality very little recycling actually happens.
chief tommy 8 months ago
Wish cycling - probably had a 5 on the bottom which means it’ll get thrown out by the recyclers anyway
The Quiet One 8 months ago
Seriously?
brick10 8 months ago
How much energy was expended to get to and from the landfill? One of Zoe’s household chores is now to sort their trash for recyclables.
Smeagol 8 months ago
I remember when markets decided to switch to plastic bags for customers groceries to “save the trees.”
kathleenhicks62 8 months ago
Never saw it!
stamps 8 months ago
Half of recycling ends up back in the landfill anyway.
Hello Sweetie 8 months ago
And now we are going to sit here and wait until the “recycling” truck comes by. We will then follow it to the same landfill and watch as the metal is sorted out and the rest is dumped on the same piles that you just had me go through.
Sophie Elizabeth Foster 1st 8 months ago
Saving the planet one step at a time!
Laurie Stoker Premium Member 8 months ago
A girl after my own heart!!! ❤️
Janet Davis Premium Member 8 months ago
That foot distracts from the responsible daughter. And the whole story reminds me of my unfortunate situation in that there is NO recycling here. It’s why PA is the landfill capital of the US.
Chantillylace524 Premium Member 7 months ago
While I am happy that Zoe is environmentally conscious, why did she wait till the garbage truck had already collected? Zoe should have encouraged Darryl earlier.
Sherlock5 6 months ago
If Zoe wanted it recycled that badly, Darryl should have made her find it.