I think it is very important to reuse and recycle. We have a limited amount of resources available and that affects the economy and welfare of the whole world. It affects economy because with a limited amount of resources we cannot keep growing and consuming the way we have been before. We have an economy based on producing and buying. But if we get to the point where we run out of resources and we cannot produce or sell anything, we will be both screwed as a human race without anything to use to survive and an economy based on selling things that cannot be produced anymore.