What fascinates me about this is that the story illustrates the basic economic problem that all recycling faces: the cost of collection.
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And your collection mechanism has to cost you less than the additional value you get by having more material at the end of it.
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The lack of a coordinated, low-cost and convenient collection system has made it difficult to implement effective recycling programs for consumer electronics.
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Recent research from the Reason Foundation finds the cost of all-electronic toll collection is just 5% of the revenue generated, compared with the 20% to 30% inherent in 20th-century cash-toll collection.
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The ultimate goal is a global program to facilitate, coordinate and ramp up the efficient, cost effective ocean and atmospheric information collection by a growing number and range of vessels and platforms.
Take museums for instance, already struggling with cost cuts across the board, the idea they could have remote viewings of their museum collection is appealing, but what is the business case for the investment and the cost to the end users.
Although building up an atlas collection is much more expensive, he adds that it the cost of buying beautiful, historically important maps is not necessarily eye watering.
One way of doing that is to work out the cost of disposal and charge firms and households for rubbish collection based on the volume they produce.
"At nearly every stage of the collection process, defendants cut corners in the name of speed, cost savings, and their own convenience, providing only the thinnest veneer of legitimacy to their lawsuits, " the complaint says.
The collection of personal data is becoming pervasive due to increasingly sophisticated technology which is becoming universally available at a low cost.
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