Acid rain is exactly what has been raining down on the Pacific Northwest for ever, and makes it green. It's nothing but "soft water" the ph level is acid, not base. Acid water leeches copper from the pipes and leaves a green deposit on white porcelain if it drips for any length of time. It is removed with more acid by nothing more then a lemon. Recycling is sorted by residents and garbage removal, and then incinerated in most municipal facilities because recycling is incredibly wasteful of resources. They were dumping trash on 3rd world nations until they were told to fuck off and stop. Even china won't buy paper for recycling anymore. Industrial waste was a problem, so they moved industry and pollution to China. Now everyone that lectures others about the environment has a life just full of made in China plastic and waste. They don't care that every $300 product was contracted by brand name multinationals from communist slave labour for $2.00. They have good shit, and they're environmentally filthy and lie through their teeth about giving a shit about the environment The air is hazier today than it was in the 1970's. Waterways in populated areas have been remedied for show.