Hello Rick,
I don’t want to argue with Rick or
anyone else on the listserve about the impact of recycling on climate change, but
I would like to clarify a few things. First, I don’t consider recycling
the lowest form of reuse, but rather, I consider reuse the highest form of
recycling. From the looks of the cartoon I think McCall was focusing on “recycling”
as the general public knows it…..putting bottles, cans, newspapers and
perhaps cardboard in their recycling bins or dropoff bins, and haz waste disposed
of by hospitals/companies, etc. When I said was “recycling isn’t
going to solve our mounting environmental problems” nor is it going to “HALT
climate change” That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t
recycle, it just acknowledges what I think is true…recycling alone won’t
solve the problems facing us with regard to climate change.
Pat
From:
RicAnthony@no.address [mailto:RicAnthony@no.address]
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007
5:51 PM
To: patfarrellfranklin@no.address; dr.ore@no.address; dorfmanann@no.address
Cc: GreenYes@no.address
Subject: Cartoonbank.com message
from David Biddle
In a message dated 11/29/2007 12:34:06
P.M. Pacific Standard Time, patfarrellfranklin@no.address writes: We all know that “recycling” isn’t going
to solve our mounting environmental problems…it’s not going to halt
climate change….. but it’s a small step that each of us can take to
help reduce our environmental footprint.
John Davis in California used the EPA/WARM to calculate the GHG
reductions if everything in California
that could be recycled or composted was . His result is that it
is equivalent to eliminating exhaust from all the automobiles in the
State. I think that is a big impact on climate change and 90% is
achievable, with new rules. Jeff Morris reports even greater
savings.
I think it is about
redesign and reuse and recycling is the lowest form of reuse.