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> There is an energy saving component to recycling. Aluminum for example takes a tremendous amount of power to produce and recycling reduces that. It's also ba
by icelancer 7y ago
> There is an energy saving component to recycling. Aluminum for example takes a tremendous amount of power to produce and recycling reduces that.
It's also basically one of the only things you will get paid for recycling (copper being the other notable exception; scrap steel is mostly worthless unless you have a ton of it).
No one wants to pay you for used plastic or paper. That alone should tell us all about the economics of recycling.
- onlyrealcuzzo 7y agoIt should also tell a lot about the negative externalities of plastic not being priced into it.
- Mediterraneo10 7y ago> No one wants to pay you for used plastic or paper. In Europe at least, people do want to pay you for used paper, and enough money that some marginal social groups specialize in collecting waste cardboard from businesses.