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Would you care to elaborate on this one?
Do you mean (1) "Being more efficient, so that less stuff needs recycling or discarding" or (2) "Putting stuff into landfill rather than recycling it"? To me, #1 seems like an obviously good thing but "Reducing the amount I recycle" seems like an odd way to describe it; #2 seems like the obvious reading of what you wrote but it's hard to see how it could be a very good thing (though it might be a way of Making a Statement, if you consider that effort spent recycling things rather than just chucking them out is wasted).
He means neither, because he's Salemicus. What he means is roughly http://www.cato-unbound.org/2013/06/18/editors/comments
That's an essay and three responses. I'm not sure how to turn that into an interpretation of what S. wrote. Nor, I'm afraid, does "because he's Salemicus" enlighten me much. My apologies if I'm being dim.
(The position taken by the main essay at that link looks to me a lot like "effort spent recycling things rather than just chucking then out is (often) wasted", and the only way I can see for this to make recycling less be a contribution to making the world a better place, worthy of calling out explicitly in a context like this, is for the sake of Making a Statement. So this looks a lot like my #2. But again I may well be being dim.)
Indeed.