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The effect of recycling on resource conservation depends on the percentage of materials that economically and technically may be recycled. Recycling extends the lifetime of an economy since it increases the long-term supply of an exhaustible resources by a factor of its “recycling multiplier” as Tietenberg and Lewis (2012, p. 184) note.
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Merz, M. (2016). Recycling as a Source of Regeneration. In: Scarce Natural Resources, Recycling, Innovation and Growth. BestMasters. Springer Gabler, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-12055-9_4
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