How Much Can We Recycle?

90 percent or 50 percent or... A friend of mine likes to say the only thing wrong with recycling rates is the numerator and the denominator. Too many legislators and recycling advocates don't want to admit that not every American cares about recycling. Because the higher recycling percentage includes boxes made overseas and used to ship products to this country (the numerator) but it does not include them in the total boxes used in this country (the denominator). [Extracted from the article]