The double-edged sword of recycling

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I'd like to comment on your fear that "the first commandment of capital ism - make a profit - will keep the industry from growing like it could." If we didn't have capitalism, the mar ket for post-consumer goods wouldn't exist. A small rural operation like ours, hundreds of miles from buyers of recy clable waste, would have to abandon its goal to not be subsidized and dig deep er into taxpayers' pockets to survive.