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The sustainable recycling issue has more to do with the long-term efficiency of the recycling process than with the costs and benefits of recycling itself, but it’s just as viable a question. Mainly, it means paying sharp attention to whether the methods, processes and efforts involved in recycling, which in itself is an environmentally sound principle, are equally environmentally sound.

It is certainly easy to see what happens when the process of recycling is not environmentally sound and sustainable. For example, a recycling process involving the use of an excessive amount of energy or involving the use of an excessive amount of fossil fuels such as oil and gas for transport to other countries could have the effect of nullifying the entire effort to recycle and its positive benefits.