If you would like to refute a statement, it's common practice to actually site a statement to refute it and not just say "I think you're wrong, prove it". Believing that taking a material through more processes to recycle it is more efficient than the fewer processes it takes to produce it in the first place, is just wishful thinking. Certainly it's possible if different methods are used, but if that were case, why wouldn't they use the 'different' more efficient methods to begin with?
Skip to 9 minute mark if you want the beginning of the meat.
This is almost all meat.
And here's a link to Daniel Benjamin's 'Eight Great Myths About Recycling'
http://www.perc.org/pdf/ps28.pdf
And there you go, Recycling is BULLSHIT! Prove it's not.
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If we had better, cleaner methods of recycling. Could it be better? Sure, but we don't, yet. There is promising research in the use of bacteria to digest waste and excrete a non-toxic by product, but it's not widely available. Personally, I think it would be great to be able to walk out into my back yard and dump all of my trash in to my 'bacteria recycler' and then shovel the fertile bi-product out of the back and into my garden. But that's not going to happen any time soon.