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In article <27711@dog.ee.lbl.gov> b_nbca@icarus.lbl.gov (Bruce Nordman) writes:

>[...] Recycling of Municipal Solid Waste (apparently what is being
>discussed) is a disposal management strategy, in which the only other
>available options are landfilling, incineration, or composting.
>If the question is how to manage waste production, then issue is
>alternative ways of providing the same end service; most discussion
>about this can take place independent of whether the resulting waste
>is recycled or not.

Why do we have to have the 'same end service'? In fact, the
possibility to recycle a product is often used as an excuse not to
avoid it altogether. This is the crucial point: people think they do a
good deed when bying recycable products. To change this, I used the
provocative subject.

>A statement like "Recycling is wrong" is about as useful as
>saying "Iron is wrong", or "adiabatic cooling is wrong".
>If the goal is to consume _no_ resources, failure is guaranteed,

I don't see that yet, but given the finiteness of resources, failure
is certainly guaranteed if you want to live like now forever.

Axel.