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tonymetyesterday at 6:32 PM1 replyview on HN

The concept of Recycling ( nearly all the materials can be reused with little cost or impact) is a myth. There are relatively few consumer products or materials that are readily recycled.

It's not so much that electronics are unrecyclable, it's that nearly everything is unrecyclable.

Recycling is nearly a fantasy. For the most part it has been a campaign for waste management firms to charge customers double while demanding they separate their own garbage, and punish them for doing it wrong. The charade lasted so long because much of the "recycling" was dumped in Asia and ended up in the ocean from there.


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JohnFenyesterday at 8:23 PM

True.

In the US, anyway, the recyclable things are paper, glass, steel, aluminum, and asphalt.