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I have a friend who's an environmental engineer and he say's while no one says this publicly, the only thing that is clearly a win for the environment is recycl
by merpnderp 11y ago
I have a friend who's an environmental engineer and he say's while no one says this publicly, the only thing that is clearly a win for the environment is recycling aluminum. The rest is either questionable, or not even close.
- Laforet 11y agoGlass, copper, steel and even asphalt scraped from roads are eminently worth recycling, plastics and paper recycling tend to be swayed by commodity prices, but you can't have a policy that recycles only when crude price is above $60 a barrel.
- ZenoArrow 11y agoIn most of these cases, is it questionable because of... 1. ...the cost of the recycling process? 2. ...the utility of the end product? 3. ...the pollution generated by the recycling process?