| In a free market, technological progress naturally | | | | regulations, comes from arbitrary, bureaucratic |
| drives society towards more efficient fuels and more | | | | government dictates, that cannot be objectively |
| efficient fuels produce less waste. Waste reduction is | | | | defined. |
| a net benefit to business, because it is the flip side of | | | | The insanity of the environmental movement, has |
| efficiency, the less waste one produces, the more | | | | driven us to a recycling frenzy, which has grown to |
| efficient the output... that increase in efficiency, also | | | | insane proportions. |
| leads to reduced prices. It is free market competition, | | | | The cure for genuine environmental problems, will not |
| that drives business toward efficiency and advances | | | | come from government, it will come from and grow |
| in technology. | | | | naturally out of science and technology, driven |
| Ironically, the recycling regulations forced on | | | | forward by business and consumer demand. |
| businesses, have the opposite effects to that which | | | | QUOTE... "First, we are told that recycling will help |
| is proclaimed. Businesses, that are forced to spend | | | | preserve scarce landfill space. We are not, however, |
| much of their time focused on recycling, become less | | | | even remotely close to running out of space for our |
| efficient and that reduction in efficiency produces | | | | garbage. Despite the "garbage trucks could ring the |
| more waste... Thus, recycling ends up being | | | | Milky Way galaxy" rhetoric, all of the trash America |
| counter-productive. | | | | will produce over the next 1,000 years could fit into a |
| The burden on that advance in technological progress | | | | landfill 15 square miles in size." -'Recycling is Not the |
| today, comes from over regulation by big | | | | Answer, by Jerry Taylor, The Cato Institute ...END |
| government, which has created a recycling | | | | QUOTE |
| boondoggle, that is eating into economic growth and | | | | Craig Secularman |
| making it very difficult for business start ups, to drive | | | | Secular-man Blog... |
| from red to black... and much of those rules and | | | | |