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Most claims of environmental good from recycling are myths. Recycling often uses more resources than it saves.
TANGENTS
Economist, n. a scoundrel whose faulty vision sees things as they really are, not as they ought to be. —after Ambrose Bierce
By Daniel K. Benjamin
Daniel Benjamin
08/01/1997
By Daniel K. Benjamin
Insecure property rights
induce trespassers and
forest owners to cut
tress on short rotations
and not to replant.
Founded 30 years ago in Bozeman, Montana, PERC—the Property and Environment Research Center—is the nation’s oldest and largest institute dedicated to improving environmental quality through property rights and markets.
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