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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 waste management status quo and in minimizing consumers' scrutiny of the environmental effects of products and packaging."
Tierney was cautious to include disclaimers in "Recycling Is…
- Trashing recycling: the new face of anti-environmentalism. (anti-recycling)
- Newspaper article from: Dollars & Sense Ackerman, Frank November 1, 1996 700+ words
...favorite environmental activity, recycling of household waste. Tierney's article, headlined "Recycling is Garbage," challenges all the...Regardless of its popularity, is recycling a mistake? Tierney is correct that recycling advocates...
- A curbed appetite: municipal officials need continuing assurances that curbside...
- Magazine article from: Recycling Today Taylor, Brian October 1, 2003 700+ words
...Great Debate: Is Recycling Garbage?" The...featured writer John Tierney, whose New York...The crux of Tierney's argument was that recycling "makes sense...remarked. A recycling advocate would probably hope that Tierney was able to walk...
- History's dustbin: recycling cutbacks. (Citings).(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Reason Lott, Jeremy October 1, 2002 700+ words
...finding a way to make recycling profitable. New York Times columnist John Tierney, whose protracted war against recycling may have played some...called the pro-recycling council members...proposed bureaucracy, Tierney asked readers to...
- Kneeling at the altar of the chasing arrows.(Special Report)(recycling...
- Magazine article from: Waste News Truini, Joe March 28, 2005 700+ words
...made author John Tierney one of the most infamous names in recycling circles. The story...have to be for recycling,'' Tierney said in a recent...story, he said. Tierney's article certainly...rattled the cage of recycling advocates, who...
- Trash talk. (recycling)
- Magazine article from: Food Processing Demetrakakes, Pan October 1, 1996 700+ words
...An article by John Tierney in the June 30 Times...magazine, headlined "Recycling Is Garbage," stated baldly that "recycling may be the most wasteful...modern America." Tierney wasn't gentle with the feelings of recycling advocates; he wrote...
- Is recycling worth it? It's the nagging question that haunts every...
- Magazine article from: Popular Mechanics Hutchinson, Alex December 1, 2008 700+ words
...volatility in the recycling market discouraged...article entitled "Recycling is Garbage," John Tierney summed up the skepticism...television show that echoed Tierney's criticisms from...years earlier. "The recycling industry creates pollution...
- Talking trash. (recycling)(includes related article on history of...
- Magazine article from: E Horrigan, Alice Motavalli, Jim March 1, 1997 700+ words
...environmentalists thought the idea of recycling was well rooted and the challenge...Magazine cover story entitled "Recycling Is Garbage," in which writer John Tierney stirred up a cauldron of doubts about every facet of recycling. His thesis: recycling...
- In defense of recycling.(Garbage)
- Magazine article from: Social Research Hershkowitz, Allen March 22, 1998 700+ words
Recycling may be the most wasteful activity...here's no reason to make recycling a legal or moral imperative. John Tierney (1996b, pp. 24, 26) [T...to cast doubt on the value of recycling, perhaps the most widely practiced...
- Fifth columnist.(John Tierney)(Interview)
- Magazine article from: Reason Sanchez, Julian October 1, 2005 700+ words
...that The New York Times' John Tierney had been tapped to succeed...page. A libertarian himself, Tierney once ushered an unprecedented...Magazine with a piece called "Recycling is Garbage," infuriated fellow...Editor Julian Sanchez spoke with Tierney in July. Q. How did you come...
- How to recycle practically anything.
- Magazine article from: E Deneen, Sally May 1, 2006 700+ words
...libertarian writer John Tierney argued that recycling could be "the most...modern America." Tierney wrote, "Recycling does sometimes make...in 2001 profiled Tierney and asked about...800-word anti-recycling story, he said
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