[geeks] Global Warming

[Lionel Peterson]

On Sep 19, 2008, at 10:52 AM, Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> 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.

There must be something better to do with used paper than shove it  
into the ground (or sea) or burn it...

Lionel