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Cool video, thanks for sharing.
I'm all about efficiency, and this guy goes to the extreme. More extreme than I care to exercise, but I'm sure I have learned some things that I can implement in the future.
Still, I wonder if the environment is better off with paper recycling, or if using virgin material each time is overall more efficient? If recycling paper was more energy efficient than producing new product, then presumably recycled product would cost less than virgin material. Cost is usually directly related to consumption of resources; either human labor, or energy use. I'm wondering the same thing about glass recycling.
As I understand it, metal recycling is more efficient than creating virgin material. I assume that's why there are scrap yards that will pay you for scrap metals. In the same way, there should be glass, paper, and plastic yards that will pay something for those materials.
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