Outside San Diego

So I was approached the other day, by a person who noticed me folding up my reusable shopping bags.   This person wanted to let me know that I was harming the environment by recycling,  and not using disposable products.   A little confused,  I politely asked for clarification.   He then admitted that the bags were not to bad (just a waste),  but that recycling was really harmful for the environment,  and that if we were smart,  we would continue to use disposable plastic products whenever possible,  because he heard on the radio that filling our landfills with plastic will add to the structural rigidity to the landfills preventing all kinds of problems, and the manufacturing process of recycling adds to pollution.  He apparently correctly read the dumfounded look on my face, and skulked off muttering “thats what they said on the radio”.