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Article #609Re: Anti-REcycling Scam In Progress !
From: Scott Linn
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 00:00
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 00:00
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Hal Lillywhite (hall@macs.mxim.com) wrote: : It is good *if* done properly. One of my pet peeves is people who : virtuously recycle without thinking of the environmental cost of how : they do it. Our garbage company told everybody to remove labels and : clean cans, milk jugs etc. To my family that meant using hot water : to soak the labels and clean the container. Cold water works fine if you let them sit. : I suspect that what we : gained in recycled plastic and metal we lost in energy expenditure. It would take a very detailed cost/benefit analysis to determine this. One that also took into account loss of outdoor tourism due to cleared forests, additional environmental degradation due to new ore mines, etc. Not an easy problem. -- ________________________________________________________________________ Scott Linn CMOS IC Design Engineer Hewlett-Packard Integrated Circuits Business Division - Corvallis, OR e-mail: scott@cv.hp.com phone: (541)715-4033 fax: (541)715-2145 ________________________________________________________________________
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 106ed4,b9b28a0e2b204b9f X-Google-Attributes: gid106ed4,public X-Google-Thread: fd3e2,b9b28a0e2b204b9f X-Google-Attributes: gidfd3e2,public X-Google-Thread: 1128d6,b9b28a0e2b204b9f X-Google-Attributes: gid1128d6,public X-Google-Thread: 104c07,b9b28a0e2b204b9f X-Google-Attributes: gid104c07,public X-Google-Thread: 10a18d,b9b28a0e2b204b9f X-Google-Attributes: gid10a18d,public From: scott@cv.hp.com (Scott Linn) Subject: Re: Anti-REcycling Scam In Progress ! Date: 1996/01/24 Message-ID: <4e5vat$f3c@hpcvca.cv.hp.com> X-Deja-AN: 136320822 references: <4dp8e8$qf6@maureen.teleport.com> <4dq7r4$i9g@maureen.teleport.com> <eagle.822136152@agora.rdrop.com> <4e5mhe$79o@macs.mxim.com> followup-to: or.general,pdx.general,ca.general,wash.general,misc.test organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA newsgroups: or.general,pdx.general,ca.general,wash.general,misc.test