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Re:Trash piles up in US as China closes door to recycling by londons_explore on Friday August 03, 2018 @06:45PM (#17684220)
Some costs of making new stuff aren't reflected in the market price. For example the CO2 cost of refining, or the pollution cost of the factory that makes it.

Rather than tax CO2 or pollution, we instead prefer to subsidize recycling.

Why? Dunno.

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Re:Trash piles up in US as China closes door to recycling by SamReidHughes on Friday August 03, 2018 @11:30PM (#17685227)
Recycling has the same sort of costs. In the past year, I've been harmed more by the noise of the recycling truck than the total harm of pollution of manufacturing new materials I could have recycled.
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