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# Recycling

[Organic cotton bags need to be used 20,000 times to equal the environmental impact of plastic bags.](https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2020/04/30/plastic-paper-cotton-bags/)

[Frequently Asked Questions: Benefits of Recycling](https://lbre.stanford.edu/pssistanford-recycling/frequently-asked-questions/frequently-asked-questions-benefits-recycling)

{% embed url="<https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/5-recycling-myths-busted-plastic>" %}

* Recycling aluminum cans saves 95 percent of the energy needed to make new cans from raw materials. Recycling steel and tin cans saves 60 to 74 percent; recycling paper saves about 60 percent; and recycling plastic and glass saves about one-third of the energy compared to making those products from virgin materials.

Criticism, "Why I am not an Environmentalist" - <https://books.google.com/books?id=qTBgMMxeJ5IC&pg=PA279>

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{% embed url="<https://meduza.io/feature/2020/01/24/s-2020-goda-moskva-perehodit-k-razdelnomu-sboru-musora>" %}

<https://www.mos.ru/news/item/70528073/>


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