Garbage In, Garbage Out.(John Tierney's article "Recycling is garbage")(Brief Article)

JOHN TIERNEY'S BEST-KNOWN PIECE, "Recycling Is Garbage," was somewhat recycled itself. The piece drew heavily on the work of a number of anti-recycling think tanks, among them the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the Cato Institute, the Reason Foundation, and the Waste Policy Center.

These groups are heavily subsidized by industry. As Richard A. Denison and John F. Ruston of the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) pointed out in their rebuttal of Tierney's article, "Many of the corporations that fund the anti-recyclers have a direct economic stake in maintaining the ...

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