LINK Is Recycling Worth It Anymore? People On The Front Lines Say Maybe Not : NPR
Recycling works, but it's not magic. As America continues to lead the world in per capita waste production, it's becoming more and more clear that everybody –- manufacturers and consumers — "over-believes" in recycling.
This is a story about responsibility, and what happens when everyone keeps trying to pass it off to the next person. And what happens, when finally, there is no next person.
This video is based in part on Throughline's podcast episode "The Litter Myth."
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.The answers lie with reducing consumption of single use disposable products,
and the creation of more cradle to cradle products. Recycling is not economically feasible
for much of what we discard.
BDair
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Well done video, it does a good job of explaining the problem.
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