Environmentalist wins $1m prize

Recycling not the best option?
edit: Just assuming this isn't Junk Science of one form or another.
Not what I expected to hear, however I think it's a bit like the governments targets in further education - it's not that people going to University is bad, it's just that setting an arbitrary target(50% of 6th form students) is causing them to do things which aren't for the greater good. Likewise they have set an arbitrary recycling target which doesn't achieve much saving in energy, can only reduce landfill to a limited extent. But at the end of the day 'recycling' sounds greener to most people than 'incineration'. Also, in both cases the objective seems to be to bring statistics about Britain closer to those of other countries (Percentage of young people in University, percentage of material recycled) and not actually improving things. Computer recycling is proabably more important. I think the law in this country tightened in 2003 to bring us in line with the EU.
Why computers?
Poisin PC and toxic TV report
BBC photos of computer 'recycling'
Proper computer recycling is available in this country:
UK computer recycling
REALISE(in London)
Jade re-marketing
Many local schemes (link to companies selling computers to charities)
Just to confuse matters however, computer re-use is sometimes called recycling:
Environ
Oxfam

End of rant. And apologies for it.
posted at 8:32:00 pm