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Default OT - effectiveness of recycling?


"polygonum" wrote in message
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On 21/12/2014 11:43, Dennis@home wrote:
It costs next to no CO2 to send stuff to china, the empty container
ships are going there anyway.


Even if it were the case that the container ships use not even one extra
joule nor emit a single extra molecule of CO2, the transport from numerous
collecting points to the ships ain't going to be without any CO2
emissions.



There are significant savings recycling glass compared with making new.