I have occasionally expressed concern about “recycling” household waste but mainly from the standpoint that much of it is shipped to China and ends up in land dumps there. Genuine recycling is important but the economic recession has made recycling uneconomic. That does not mean that we should not recycle, but we should find a [...]
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