Article: Garbage in. (New York Times Sunday Magazine writer John Tierney is assailed for his attack on recycling)(Column)

On the cover of The New York Times Sunday Magazine not long ago was a story entitled, "What a Waste: Recycling squanders money and good will, and doesn't do much for the environment, either."

It was one of the most unbalanced stories in recent years, but it must have been comforting for The New York Times, which by the author's own admission, cuts down 75,000 trees each week for its mammoth Sunday edition. Indeed, the author, John Tierney, a Times staffer, sucks up to his bosses by saying "newspaper and magazine publishers, whose products are a major component of municipal landfills, nobly led the crusade against trash....It's the first time that an industry has ...

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