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COLIN BEAVAN, PhD

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LV GRN: Why recycling is nowhere near enough

April 9, 2008 by Colin Beavan

People used to to ask me, essentially, why I was making such a big dig about not making trash during the No Impact project. They’d say, “I mean, it’s recyclable, right?” As Annie Leonard says in Story of Stuff, “Recycling reduces the garbage at [the landfill and incinerator] end and it reduces the pressure to […]

Filed Under: Consumerism and Materialism, Environment, No Impact Man Tagged With: carbon emissions, downcycling, environment, global warming, production costs, recycling, Trash

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