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recycling
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We’re Doing Recycling All Wrong, Seriously, Entirely The Wrong Way
Assume that we do in fact desire to recycle everything. I don’t think so, in fact I know…
A Terribly Stupid Claim About Green Steel And Recycling
Sure, we know how this works. Recycling is fashionable, it has become the solution to everything including inequality…
Don’t Recycle Plastics – Burn Them
An excellent letter in The Observer. One that actually has the facts to hand, proposes the right policy.…
One Greenie Finally Gets The Disposable Cup Solution Right
That the entire blabber about disposable coffee cups is a nonsense is obviously true. We grow trees to…
Wall Street Journal Gets Aluminium Can Recycling Entirely Wrong
Make sure to read the comments to check corrections to this correction. You know we’re all supposed to…
Getting China’s Steel Recycling Wrong – It’s About Rebuilding, Not Pollution
It’s sad to see people getting the basic economics wrong in a story. So it is with this…
Government’s Just The Way We Work Out How To Empty The Bins
Barack Obama proclaimed that government is just the name we give to those things we do together. A…
Is Liberty Vittert Actually This Stupid – Making Money By Recycling Plastics
Liberty Vittert is rather the public face of a certain sort of science these days. Statistical science, and…
International Statistic Of The Year – 90.5% Of All Plastics Aren’t Recycled
From The Conversation: This year, I served on the judging panel for The Royal Statistical Society’s International Statistic of…
A New £1 Billion Tax Says We Shouldn’t Recycle Plastics
Sure we should recycle some things and equally certainly we shouldn’t recycle others. The trick is in knowing…