I think the economics and political philosophy of recycling can not only be interesting but at times has gotten just plain strange. Recycling I guess means two things, identification and disposal of waste (1st) and then (2nd) use of that waste rather than some sort of sequestration or "throwing away" as a disposal method. I guess folks have a tough enough time paying for number one, and getting to number 2 is just that much tougher or something. Maybe we had so much of the Earth to ourselves for so many millenia that we just are having a tough time with our more "crowded" state.
Looking at the history of the effort to recycle paper, it seems to me there was some strange volatility of recycled-paper prices. That is, I think I read an article once where they said at some point you did have a lot of entrants into the relatively nascent market, and there was enthusiasm, or even over-enthusiasm for this new field that had met previously with skepticism, and then the bottom kind of fell out of the recycled paper raw feed market and so the business went back to being viewed skeptically? Well, that's my recollection. Well, I'm sure there are University Professors out there doing all sorts of interesting and terribly important theses which are pertinent to the Economics of Recycling, except their ideas will probably become mainstream decades after they might have done us any good. Heck, it's taken me years just to get some folks to understand that regenerative braking arguably amounts to recycling energy of motion, but I guess that's getting a bit off my point, and a bit away from regular recycling concepts. >it's free for the taking. Biodieselers are a great way to localise >the collection of waste oils effectively. > >I also saw this, but haven't managed to confirm it: "Every year, U.S. >businesses throw away enough waste vegetable oil to replace 10% of >the petroleum products consumed in the country." Biofuels at Journey to Forever http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel at WebConX http://webconx.green-trust.org/2000/biofuel/biofuel.htm List messages are archived at the Info-Archive at NNYTech: http://archive.nnytech.net/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
