“Recycling” served its purpose to raise consciousness around closed-loop material flows, but it’s kinda good that the myth is collapsing. Outside of a few things like aluminum it’s unclear whether it’s net any good environmentally. nytimes.com/2019/03/16/bus
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I'm torn, because there's a part of this that seems right. We should be looking at the trade-offs of the whole system, and shouldn't be dogmatic about looking to behavioral changes first. It's also hard for me to imagine on a bigger timescale that we might need "all of the above"


