Recycle is but 1/3 of the 3 Rs which are Recycle, Reduce, Reuse Currently most local government recycling programs are a waste of time. Recycle depends upon market economics ie how much will someone pay for this stuff. Local government recycling programs require an inordinate amount of processing even though people have presorted. People recycle for one of two reasons -1) it makes them feel good, or 2) they can make money at it http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/american-recycling-is-stalling-and-the-big-blue-bin-is-one-reason-why/2015/06/20/914735e4-1610-11e5-9ddc-e3353542100c_story.html?tid=sm_fb Penn & Teller on Recycling https://youtu.be/yh-KDa_Jmok 8 great myths of recycling http://www.perc.org/articles/eight-great-myths-recycling-no-28 On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 8:42 AM, Cohen, Stephen E. <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > In general, recycling does not conserve energy, as energy is required to > process the recyclable materials. Recycling is more about conserving and > reusing the materials. > -- Peter Kurilecz CRM CA IGP [log in to unmask] Dallas, Texas Save our in-boxes! http://emailcharter.org http://twitter.com/RAINbyte http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/RAINbyte/ http://paper.li/RAINbyte/rainbyte https://groups.google.com/d/forum/archives-in-the-news Information not relevant for my reply has been deleted to reduce the electronic footprint and to save the sanity of digest subscribers List archives at http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.html Contact [log in to unmask] for assistance To unsubscribe from this list, click the below link. If not already present, place UNSUBSCRIBE RECMGMT-L or UNSUB RECMGMT-L in the body of the message. mailto:[log in to unmask]