Recycling vs Garbage

[Il_Mostro]

That of course is the problem, and I don't have an answer. It's probably not possible to know the "correct" value without knowing how much of the particular material there is out there, and that is something we don't for just about everything. And even if we know the amount there is, you still can't put a dollar value on it, the pricing would be done by the market. But the market would do a better job if we knew how much there is.

[tylerdurden]

So you don't know "correct" pricing, but you're comfortable saying the "current" price is "out of whack with the real world"?

Is market pricing, based on the information availble, is "out of whack with the real world"? Or, since you seem to be saying that market pricing *would* be correct, but isn't for some "unknown" reason, are you suggesting that there are forces that distort market pricing? Of course, I would agree with that idea - and those forces are goverments and their regulations.