Welcome to my second post addressing some of the reasons why we need to reduce our waste. (Click here for the first post, all about landfills.)
As a society, we love recycling. It’s hard not to love it, when it’s promoted as such a fantastic thing: all of a sudden, it doesn’t matter that your strawberries are packaged in a plastic clamshell container, because there’s that little lovely triangle with the recycling symbol on the bottom. Put the container in your recycling bin, and it happily lives on to be made into new plastic packaging.
Except, that’s not how it works.
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