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Circle No. 94 Environmental Science & Technology
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DEARSIR: Walter Spofford’s article in the December 1970 issue, “Closing the gap in waste management,” contains some errors which are deeply imbedded in “welfare” economics. Environmental problems are attributed to “the failure of the private market system to allocate certain common property resources.” If property owned “in common” is actually property which no one in particular owns, how is it possible for a private market to develop which will allocate the “common” property? A private market system without the exchange of private property is a logical impossibility. I think the “common property” issue is really a mirage created to subjugate the private market system to the glorified state, which can allegedly better represent “society as a whole.” Another error is the special status given to “external damages” in environmental problems. What damage imposed on some people by other people is not external? I can think of no “internal’’ damage which would not be merely self-inflicted injury. The problem of “externalities” is necessarily outside the market system and is the reason for the existence of government, But to say that government should intervene in the market system to more efficiently allocate resources is as wrong as to say that the market system, if functioning properly, should automatically discount all “externalities.” The private market system, based on supply and demand, is the only efficient allocator of resources consistent with individual freedom. Kurt Leininger Environmental Hygiene Agency Edgewood Arsenal, M d . 21010 DEARSIR: We note with interest the article “Closing the gap in waste management” in the December 1970 issue of ES&T by Walter 0. Spofford, Jr. However, we feel that we must make a correction in his reference to Bergstrom Paper Co. (page 111 2 ) . We are not a newspaper recycling plant. In fact, in manufacturing our fine printing papers, we use no newsprint at all. We do recycle high-grade
