Can it be? Have people started to realize that the emperor is wearing no clothes?
The rule of thumb is: if it doesn’t pay, it is not more efficient to recycle. It is not “greener,” unless there is actually a cost savings.
Economics actually makes it plain.
Penn and Teller have a great episode on recycling, if you can get over the torrents of profanity. Available on youtube.
“Penn and Teller have a great episode on recycling, if you can get over the torrents of profanity.”
Believe it or not, the notion that “recycling is garbage” was printed in the NYTimes more than 15 years ago:
http://www.williams.edu/HistSci/curriculum/101/garbage.html
It’s the sanitized version of the arguments made more colorfully by Penn and Teller.