“recycling…is the likely explanation for the relative scarcity of metal finds at major urban centres at opposite ends of the Sasanian empire…”
It should be remembered that recycling is not a modern Western concept, but is...
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“As cities move beyond recycling paper and metals, and into glass, food scraps and assorted plastics, the costs rise sharply while the environmental benefits decline and sometimes vanish”
As cities move beyond recycling paper and metals, and into glass, food scraps and...
“How can you build a sustainable city with a strategy that can’t even sustain itself?”
…why do so many public officials keep vowing to do more of ? Special-interest...
“The environmental benefits of recycling come chiefly from reducing the need to manufacture new products…”
The environmental benefits of recycling come chiefly from reducing the need to manufacture new...
“…the great landfill shortage has not arrived, and neither have the shortages of raw materials that were supposed to make recycling profitable”
One of the original goals of the recycling movement was to avert a supposed...
“…otherwise well-informed and educated people have no idea of the relative costs and benefits” of recycling
Recycling has been relentlessly promoted as a goal in and of itself: an unalloyed...
“As a business, recycling is on the wrong side of two long-term global economic trends”
As a business, recycling is on the wrong side of two long-term global economic...