Comments on: Jeremy O’Brien on why some items can be recycled, but not others http://earthsky.org/earth/why-cant-everything-be-recycled A Clear Voice for Science Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:25:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Benjamin Napier http://earthsky.org/earth/why-cant-everything-be-recycled/comment-page-1#comment-1822 Benjamin Napier Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:42:59 +0000 http://208.96.63.114/?p=2760#comment-1822 <p>If an item or commmodity is cheap and ubiquitous, there is no reason to recycle it. Unless, like aluminum, it is cheaper to recycle than to process bauxite.</p> <p>It is allabout economics. The environment is OK. The real deal is, can you affort the product?</p> If an item or commmodity is cheap and ubiquitous, there is no reason to recycle it. Unless, like aluminum, it is cheaper to recycle than to process bauxite.

It is allabout economics. The environment is OK. The real deal is, can you affort the product?

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