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Paper becomes compost at the end of it's life cycle, you get to use it like 5 times. Metals are infinitely recyclable, and cheaper to recover than to produce from ores. Plastics are hard to separate, but half of them are infinitely recyclable, the rest can be burned for electricity using chemical capturing exhaust stacks.
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