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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeremy Ackerman-Yost" data-source="post: 5026622" data-attributes="member: 4720">Actually, this one is.  The recycling tech for most of those metals is cleaner than paper and the volume is far less.  This is actually a case of new tech being less polluting than old tech.  That's actually very common, but we'd like to pretend that pollution is a new problem.Paper and textiles still destroy a lot of watersheds, especially in developing countries that are already having water problems.  The sheer volume of the industry puts it head and shoulders above most others in terms of impact, but paper seems so benign, so it gets little press.  It's way easier to scare people with tech, because it's new and complex, but heavy metal in your local water is more likely to come from paper mills than anything in the "tech" sector.</blockquote>