That rebuttal doesn’t appear to be very extensive at all. All of the claimed benefits are extremely vague other than job creation, and if creating jobs is the only concretely measurable benefit of recycling, there seems to be no strong reason to believe it wouldn’t be more economically and environmentally efficient to pay those people to do other things, or even just to twiddle their thumbs.
Sorry, I should have linked to the index of the 4-chapter + preface + conclusion + 4 appendices long report, instead of the 1-page long preface: (I’m fixing the link above to change that.)
That rebuttal doesn’t appear to be very extensive at all. All of the claimed benefits are extremely vague other than job creation, and if creating jobs is the only concretely measurable benefit of recycling, there seems to be no strong reason to believe it wouldn’t be more economically and environmentally efficient to pay those people to do other things, or even just to twiddle their thumbs.
Sorry, I should have linked to the index of the 4-chapter + preface + conclusion + 4 appendices long report, instead of the 1-page long preface: (I’m fixing the link above to change that.)