In conclusion, Mises also teaches us what to expect. Mises, in his great work Human Action, does not say that recycling is a bad belief. He shows by example that mandatory recycling is an inappropriate means of caring about the environment. Waste is inescapable. Austrian economics leaves it to every person to decide whether his or her belief in recycling is more important than the avoidance of the inevitable consequences of forced recycling policies: wasted natural resources and wasted human resources. Floy Lilley is an adjunct scholar at the Mises Institute. She was formerly with the University of Texas at Austin's Chair of Free Enterprise, and an attorney-at-law in Texas and Florida. Send her mail. See Floy Lilley's article archives. Comment on the blog. You can subscribe to future articles by Floy Lilley via this RSS feed. You can receive the Mises Dailies in your inbox. Go here to subscribe or unsubscribe.

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