NRDC: Too Good To Throw Away - Chapter 1

I have wanted to do this for a while, so will take Live Earth as the excuse to post it today.

NRDC: Too Good To Throw Away - Chapter 1:

"...using recycled materials reduces the need to extract, process, refine, and transport timber, crude petroleum, ores, etc., into virgin-based paper, plastics, glass, and metals, recycling lessens the toxic air emissions, effluents, and solid wastes that these manufacturing processes create. It is virtually beyond dispute that manufacturing products from recyclables instead of from virgin raw materials -- making, for instance, paper out of old newspapers instead of virgin timber -- causes less pollution and imposes fewer burdens on the earth's natural habitat and biodiversity"