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In article <4e4blp$9n5@maureen.teleport.com> Gary Hibbard <garyhibb@teleport.com> writes:
|>> Well, it seems that the price of the recycled paper must exceed that of 
|>> new unused stuff. I can't blame a business person for saving money and not 
|>> [losing] customers who are into recycling. I don't see this as the fault of 
|>> the business person.
|>
|>Excuse me, since when is lying not the fault of the liar?
|>Jacque Greenleaf
|
|I was really refering to the businessman not being responsible for the 
|higher cost of the recycled paper. However, I do admit that I find 
|disguising new as recycled so as not to offend and therefore [lose]
|customers to be dishonest, yet also understandable.

It is only understandable if you generally find shady business dealings
understandable.

|Here goes a phrase that will no doubt get me hate mail. If some radical
|"tree huggers" were more realistic and less emotional they might see that
|in SOME cases it is financially and [ecologically] cheaper to not recycle.

Granted that an analysis of life-cycle costs might prove some recycling
processes to be ecologically more expensive, but it is also true that the
way we subsidize the production of virgin pulp skews the economic analyses.
When we have the forest service spending more on the preparation of sales
than the value of the sales themselves as has been demonstrated by some
research I have filed away here somewhere, it's pretty hard to evaluate
those life cycle costs.  Though some conservatives would like to lump all
conservationists into a neat little "tree-huggers" package to dispense 
with as radical fringe, not all of us are unrealistic or blinded by emotion.

[Disparaging remark about recyclers deleted.]
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