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- From: 6500axel@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Axel Boldt)
- Newsgroups: talk.environment
- Subject: Recycling is wrong.
- Message-ID: <6825@ucsbcsl.ucsb.edu>
- Date: 22 Nov 92 02:09:24 GMT
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- In article <27417@dog.ee.lbl.gov> b_nbca@icarus.lbl.gov (Bruce Nordman)
- writes:
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- >In article <40871@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>, ph600fcy@sdcc14.ucsd.edu (Matthew
- >Harrington) writes:
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- >|> I'd like to decorate my bumper with some stickers promoting
- >|> environmentalism and recycling. Does anyone know a source
- >|> for these?
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- >Just be aware that there is some amount of cognitive dissonance
- >in putting environmental labels on a car, which has caused
- >a tremendous amount of environmental damage in California.
- >And of course, bumperstickers aren't recyclable.
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- There is still another contradiction: recycling <-> environmentalism. I
- think we should promote the *reduction* of ressource consumption.
- 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
- of the recycled product is always less than the quality of the product
- you started with.
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- It's the old game: trying to find technological solutions for problems
- caused by wrong behaviour. It won't work!
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- Reduction and Reusing is the only way!
-
- Axel.
-