Anti-Recycling Myths
TIME magazine ran an article titled "Recycling is Garbage" in June, 1996. The author of that piece may have used "The Eight Myths of Recylcing" by Daniel Benjamin. I'm uncertain just who's work came first.Daniel Benjamin is a professor at Clemson University and a senior associate at PERC, the Property and Environment Research Center. His article is everywhere -- Google for it and you will come back with some 125,000 hits.
Though Benjamin's work is not without some truth, it often takes a narrow view on the costs of recycling, and therefore is not complete or accurate. Click on this post's title to read "Anti-Recycling Myths". This article is well-researched, with plenty of supporting documentation.
The Environmental Literacy Council also has a short piece defending recycling.
posted by Miles Baska 
