The Three R's are a slogan that most people think of when they hear 'environmental conservation." As a matter of fact, this BABCE director remembers being taught to "Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle" as early as kindergarten. Is recycling really the key to saving our planet, though? And is it even worth the effort? First of all, one might note that recycling is most highly promoted by the plastic industry. In the opinion of this BABCE director, however, they overvalue its worth as a means of deflecting the blame from themselves (after all, they make all of the plastic) to the consumer (shame on him/her for not reusing the product). Recycling, however, simply is not as effective as it is made out to be (and some might argue that it isn't effective at all). Consider the following points:
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"There is nothing in which the birds differ more than man than the way that they can build and yet leave the landscape as it was before." |