Does recycling make economic sense?

Recycling a ton of metal or high-grade paper removes about three tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Recycling plastic removed only one ton of carbon dioxide per ton of plastic. Taking these facts together and setting environmental benefits aside suggests that recycling plastic does not make economic sense. read more

Natalie Bennett, leader of the Green Party, and Dr Richard Wellings, deputy research director at the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), discuss if recycling makes economic sense in this month’s debate read more

By David Dougherty THERE has been much musing about the current shift from a society prone to use and dispose to one that is more aware of the costs of those habits. read more