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"Informed, voluntary recycling conserves resources and raises our wealth, enabling us to achieve valued ends that would otherwise be impossible. Mandatory programs, however, in which people are directly or indirectly compelled to do what they know is not sensible, routinely make society worse off. Such programs force people to squander valuable resources in a quixotic quest to save what they would sensibly discard."

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"Long before state or local governments had even contemplated the word recycling, the makers of steel, aluminum, and thousands of other products were recycling manufacturing scraps. Some operated post-consumer drop-off centers."

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Curbside recycling uses more resources that just dumping our garbage. It cost more to have people go that extra mile to recycle things that will pollute the earth to recycle them.

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"Instead of one truck picking up 40 pounds of garbage, one will pick up four pounds of recyclables and a second will collect 36 pounds of rubbish."

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"Recycling merely changes the nature of pollution—sometimes decreasing it, and sometimes increasing it."

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Our "irreplaceables'" are very replaceable. We have doubled the amount of trees we planted to make up for the amount we have cut down. We have more resources today then we did one hundred years ago.

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"Garbage has become an Interstate business."

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"An average aluminum can weighed nearly 21 grams in 1972; in 2002, that same can weighs in at under 14 grams. A plastic grocery sack was 2.3 mils [millimeters] thick in 1976; by 2001, it was a mere 0.7 mils."

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"The reason is that our intensive use of packaging yields less spoilage and breakage, thereby saving resources, and producing, on balance, less total rubbish. Careful packaging also reduces food poisoning and other health problems."

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"The average American family generates fully one third less trash than does the average Mexican household."

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It is a myth that our garbage will poison us. Although possible, it is VERY unlikely.

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Our garbage will bury us, a myth that will never happen, because even thought the US is the most rapid growing country, our landfill space is also the most rapid growing. We ave more space than ever before. 10 miles of landfill would hold our garbage for the next century.

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