Recycling is Bad?

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Jan 20 12:15:09 PST 2003


Carrol Cox wrote:


>At the first Midwest Conference of Radical Scholars and Activists a left
>geographer from Northwestern read an excellent paper (which I never got
>a hard copy of) that demonstrated pretty conclusively that (a) recycling
>was essentially just a service to a few corporations and (b) was a
>serious energy drain. It takes a good deal more energy to turn waste
>paper into paper than to turn wood chips into paper.

Didn't Jim O'Connor argue against recycling in an interview with Cockburn in the first or second issue of Z? Jim, you still lurking here?

Doug



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