Recycling a Point About Recycling

Here's a letter to the Boston Globe:

Bravo for Jeff Jacoby's clear-eyed assessment of recycling ("Get excited about recycling? Not me," Sept. 19).  When materials are worth recycling, markets for their reuse naturally arise.  For materials with no natural markets for their reuse, the benefits of recycling are less than its costs – and, therefore, government efforts to promote such recycling waste resources.

Everyday experience should teach us this fact.  The benefits of recycling clothing, for...