Although the estimates are consistent with accounting principles that require each activity bear its share of entity-operation cost, the conflict is with the incremental principle: Only costs of revenue that change because of a decision should be considered in making the decision. In the preceding example, there is nothing logically wrong with estimates of revenue, labor cost, or rack cost: none of those would exist without the recycling, so they are incremental to the decision. There are problems, however, with the administrative, operational, and maintenance cost figures: Will any of these costs be different because of the recycling program? If not(which is probably the case), they should be excluded in making the decision. When the adjustment to incremental reasoning is made, the program actually will subsidize the general government ($300 incremental revenue over incremental cost), rather than require subsidization. And there may be further gains if cost of the traditional waste-management operation are reduced because newspaper are no longer in the stream going to the landfill.