On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 12:17 -0600, Michael L Torrie wrote: > As for recycling being a bad thing, that's junk science. Although we > have really be careful with energy and pollution economics here.
Just to clarify. If recycling material causes a net increase in carbon emissions (burning of diesel fuel, electricity generation), then that can actually be more detrimental to the environment that manufacturing new material. This ignores the environmental impact of landfills, toxic runoff, etc, which are as serious as the rest of it all. So we'll always be making trade-offs. More carbon emissions for cleaner ground water, etc. > > Michael > > > > > > Andy > > -- > > [-----------[system uptime]--------------------------------------------] > > 11:53am up 47 days, 3:16, 1 user, load average: 1.00, 1.00, 1.00 > > > > /* > > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > > Don't fear the penguin. > > */ > > > > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
