Could reason and logic finally be creeping into the most hallowed halls of the Church of Environmentalism? It looks like some governments may be carrying the recycling thing a bit too far.
From
The Examiner in Washington, DC....
But some national recycling experts have begun calling for government restraint in trash recycling, which can be more costly and environmentally damaging than dumping.
"We just assume recycling is always better," said J. Winston Porter, president of the Waste Policy Center, an environmental consulting and policy organization. "But there's a point at which you shouldn't just recycle for recycling's sake."
Porter is a former policy administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency who helped set the federal government's first nationwide recycling targets.
I've always enjoyed telling my son and his friends when they come home from school all fired up about recycling, that paper recycling is one of the most polluting industrial processes out there. It's fine to recycle, and it usually makes perfect economic sense to do so, but nothing is ever that simple and it's great to see that maybe that point is being made by an environmentalist, too.
