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Simply put, NO. In order for 'recycling' to be a benefit, the costs of it need to be less than the cost of producing a 'new' product. In most cases, this is true only for items like aluminum, which have a very high initial cost, but can be recycled for less money and energy consumption. Recycling doesn't make sense if the complete costs of it (transportation, energy, deferred costs, etc) are figured into the equation. For example, it's much more environmentally damaging to recycle paper than it is to simply produce new paper - paper recycling uses tons of volatile and dangerous chemicals, whereas new paper only requires trees - and trees are grown specifically for paper in many areas. Saving trees by recycling paper is like saving wheat by not eating cereal. Many of the EPAs most highly-polluted Superfund areas are themselves recycling centers. That said, I suppose if you look at it from a cosmic perspective, then everything IS recycleable - every atom on earth (including YOU) came from an exploding supernova star somewhere billions of years ago, and sooner or later all the atoms on earth will be back in the universe in some other form.

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