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> My claim is that as long as recycling is a net gain, after you count all the costs, it doesn't matter what percentage of the total waste stream it is.

Then you are ignoring the very existence of opportunity cost.




I think we actually agree here. I said: "net gain, after you count all the costs." I meant "all the costs" to include opportunity costs.




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