At 08:40 AM 5/28/99 -0400, Intitute for Local Self-Reliance wrote:
>I appreciate the discussions of glass vs plastic and refillables in
>general.
>
>For those who want to foresake refillables, I remind that initial EPA
>studies made in the early l970's estimated that refillables are 200
>times more efficient with regard to energy and pollution vs. recycling.
>
>With regard to the "need for market pull". Certainly markets for
>recovered materials are critical. But let us not fall prey to the myth
>of the market. The market is what we make it. That is, the market
>reflects the rules we make to govern our lives. We can change rules as
>we want to change our lives.
>
>More on this later.
>
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>Neil Seldman
>President
>
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