[geeks] Global Warming

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Lionel Peterson wrote:
> I can think of no reason to waste anything (power, oil, or any natural 
> resource), and I recycle whenever practical, to the point that when I go 
> on a business trip I bring the trade magazines I read on the plane trips 
> and in the hotel back home to recycle if I can't find a recycle bin at 
> the hotel. The same goes for aluminium cans - when I toss a soda can in 
> the trash I feel bad...

Recycling paper is worse for the environment than making new paper from 
farmed wood pulp.  Recycling plastic takes more energy than making new 
plastic.

Recycling metal, on the other hand, does make sense from an economic and 
physics perspective.

Peace...  Sridhar