Reduce, Reuse, then Recycle
Ryan and Leslie discuss making conservation-friendly decisions for your household.
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Show Notes & Helpful Links
Set the table
It's Reduce, Reuse, THEN Recycle. The order is functional.
Segment 1: Reduce & Reuse
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Think blister packaging and food delivery containers.
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Put plastic last except maybe for grocery bags which are very easy to reuse as, say, trash liners that have less plastic than marketed trash liners.
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Get creative for reusing
Segment 2: Recycling-What to do
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Not nearly as effective as we are lead to believe.
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Figure out what local options are. Not just processing, actual recycling. Do those.
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Remember to rinse items
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Discuss “new” ideas: going back to the milkman set up.
Segment 3: A little background on plastics and recycling conundrum
Closing
Helpful Links
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The World's Recycling Is in Chaos. Even before China’s ban, only 9 percent of discarded plastics were being recycled.
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How the plastic bottle went from miracle container to hated garbage
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China is clamping down on dirty recycling from across the globe
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Back to the milkman format. This innovation is currently in limited release in Paris and New England
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