INDEPENDENCE GR: PAPER Issue Paper #7-91 June 5, 1991 Recycling and Realism: A Market Approach by Jim McMahon ES INDEPENDENCE INSTITUTE 14142. DENVER WEST PARKWAY, SUITE 185 GOLDEN, COLORAD' (303) 279-6536 FAX 303) 75- "1176 LLL AS7-91 dune 5, 7 RECYCLING AND REALISM: A MARKET APPROACH By Jim McMahon and the Independence staff The Editors Why recycle? To avoid, depending on your point of view, marring the with litter or scarring it with landfills’ or depleting it of Finite reso 79 avoid waste and promote thrift, In short, for some combinatior and profit, taking those two in there broadest meaning. be debated, but the debate fc SomewpOnTeNTS, sgtdemte because politically, recycts necycling Strategy for Anytown USA... is here and it's ‘not’ ee lan Before You Plunge. in this issue Paper, ecologist and busi, fae tncentntn eae Impure Jim Mctiahon takes the recycisqventory ess impulse as a given and Cuts to thiarify the Economic Sig : ae apt for Your Locality and Regton...-+-+4 Recycling is coming in your city, Coming mary and Conclusion.. in your state, McMahon Says; the only question is whether Policy makers will screw it up or do it right. Gan Do Better, Colorado. 0 Sell Toss He argues that doing it right is most~ ne Nearby & ly a matter of being realistic about 4 15 the Leadership?.- pe MCHUCLEE scemprovidinctarbrcrearere: fr and uncoerced economic. signals “cau’ate taerieete, Satie, waste ian sooty |. + sector Concerns. .... (ith a minimum of jawboning and sce B ie timentality and mandates, ‘ing on @ | ointed in Denver. his issue paper consists of two pieces | by ‘Jim McHahon and one about nin. the third gives sone sense of his majoc role vin helping make Seattle tne nation's leader in municipal recycling, In the others, he draws on that’ exper: Pefeils 1p for Seattle.. Wnat Hoy yim Started. (Continued on Page 3)