The Recycling Zero Sum Game

Seen in a library.

The sign says “single sided printouts only”

So here’s the dilemma: either you print double sided and don’t recycle or you print single sided and recycle?

Anyone else reminded of those 007 movies where James Bond is forced to choose between saving the girl and saving the world? Building on that premise, any way to save both?

2 comments

  1. Reuse is more beneficial to the environment than recycling. Consider this. To recycle takes resources and all it amounts to is reusing the material. If you instead reuse it yourself, you are not using up those resources and you are reusing the material. So print both sides brutha!

  2. Recycle the girl?

    Read something about a printer that can erase the text. I guess one could recycle the printed page that way.

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