Stolen shamelessly from a famous American article published in 1996.
The author, John Tierney, later said that he got more hate mail for that piece than anything else he or anybody ever wrote for the New York Times Magazine.
The article can be found here.
The article starts off with a scene of school kids gathering rubbish and shows the problem right from the start:
Miss Aponte finished emptying the last bag. “We’ve been learning about the need to reduce, reuse and recycle,” she said, and pointed at the pile.
”How does all this make you feel?”
”Baaaad,” the students moaned.
The pile of garbage included the equipment used by the children in the litter hunt: a dozen plastic bags and two dozen pairs of plastic gloves. The cost of this recycling equipment obviously exceeded the value of the recyclable items recovered. The equipment also seemed to be a…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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