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In article <6784@ucsbcsl.ucsb.edu> 6500axel@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu writes:

>Everything else is on the wrong track. Recycling uses tremendous amounts of energy, and it is no cycle at all: it is a spiral going down. The quality>writes:
>of the recycled product is always less than the quality of the product
>you started with. 
>
>Axel.

I like the analogy to a downward spiral.  Not only in terms of a creeping
reduction in product quality, as stated - but also in the sense that recycling
does not in the end save anything at all - it merely *delays* the inevitable
exhaustion of a resource (since recycling is not 100% efficient).

But if recycled products can be produced with lower overall energy consumption
(can they?), then I am all for them, although only as a poor person's substitute
for reduced consumption.

Tom S.
dualist@leland.stanford.edu