I was listening to the radio today and I was kind of taken aback by someone saying that recycling was useless and functioned only to make us feel good about ourselves. I'm not sure if it was regular talk radio, sports radio, or just a spot on some random station (don't ask me; I don't remember, and I'm going to blame my work hours for it), but in any case, their reasoning was that it still uses a ton of fossil fuels and therefore isn't worthwhile.

Well, I disagree. I'm not going to argue that recycling uses a lot of power (I learned that from playing Sim City), but that really isn't the point. I thought the point was to reuse the resources that go into the actual products, thereby lowering the need for harvesting new raw materials, which in turn will reduce the need of using those same precious fuels for that particular job. Plus, it reduces waste. I'm not sure why this bugs me, and maybe the fact that I've not cut my hair all summer has put some sort of hippie aura about me, but I think it's important to know that recycling is an important thing.

Or maybe I'm just ignorant.