reprocessing. A more realistic proposal is that of attaching the wiring harness so
that it can be quickly ripped out in one piece for easy salvaging of the copper.
In developing recycling procedures along these lines it is obviously desirable
that the costs to a company for recycling versus costs for abandoning the old
parts and using virgin materials reflect total real costs to society. No individual
company could stay in business if it magnanimously undertook a costly recycling
program in order to conserve virgin materials and reduce processing pollution
if its competitors could utilize inexpensive new materials obtained at a price
that did not reflect these total costs.