Should We Recycle?

From the time when you were a small child, you were probably taught the virtues of recycling: paper, plastic, aluminum; you did your part to save the Earth. But a growing number of voices are concerned that recycling may harm the environment by expending more resources than simple trash. Before you decide whether to toss that plastic bottle in the blue bin, what should you consider?

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Recycling Makes Economic Sense

- From California Department of Conservation

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it isn't about ecconomics

If it made economic sense the companies that generate the wast to the consumers would be sieving the landfills for raw materials. The very fact that the governments need to pass laws to force recycling is the point in fact. They commandeer the public as the free labor force to justify the existence of recycling.

There are some cases where it is an economic benefit for companies to recycle, and in general it is an environmental benefit, but by no means is any consumer recycling any sort of economic benefit.

As long as there are people that do not care about the "recycling deposits" as important to their financial components of their subsistence, it will never be a question of economic sense. It's a bogus excuse and not needed to justify it's existence. Don't muddy the water with this straw man argument. It only provides the opponents with ammunition to counter the true rationale.

- tomcat2200 September 14, 2008 1:05AM

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