TerraCycle is a free recycling hack for K-cups, toothpaste tubes, and all your hard-to-recycle stuff: How it works

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What Is Recycling? The Definition Is So Broad That It Allows Corporations to Dupe Consumers

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Lifehacker

Nine Mistakes Basically Everyone Makes When Recycling

Recycling is a nightmare. We all want to reduce waste— 93% of Americans support recycling—but in the real world, many/most people don't really know what's recyclable and what isn't. So we toss every ...
The New York Times

Recycling Is Broken. Should I Even Bother?

Every little bit helps. But doing it wrong can actually make matters worse. Credit...Naomi Anderson-Subryan Supported by By Winston Choi-Schagrin Recycling can have big environmental benefits. For one ...
The New York Times

I’m Appalled by What I Learned About Recycling. But We Can Fix It.

Mr. Franklin-Wallis is the author of “Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future” and an editor at GQ. It happened again the other night: Washing up after dinner, ...
WHYY

Some researchers say plastic recycling is a 'fraud' — What do we do now?

This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and science podcast. Find it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. When I called Wayne DeFeo and told him I was considering ...
Yahoo

What Is Recycling? The Definition Is So Broad That It Allows Corporations to Dupe Consumers

“Recycling is already really difficult for consumers,” said Aisha Stenning, who leads a plastics initiative for the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, a nonprofit that advocates for a “circular economy” that ...