Nice content. Thank you for putting together the recycling article, very iluminating. I too have struggled to do the 'right' thing for the environment and as someone who also lived a good chunk of time in Europe, it was almost second nature to recycle there (at the very least paper & glass items) a very different reality here in the US.
In Europe people seem to be more "eco-conscious" but recycling there faces similar challenges. In my view, the main issue in most of the US is that the single-stream policies are badly implemented (so a lot of things don't get to be recycled) and that most material is not recycled within the country but sold to China and other Asian countries where they process it, incinerate it or dump it anyways.
Nice content. Thank you for putting together the recycling article, very iluminating. I too have struggled to do the 'right' thing for the environment and as someone who also lived a good chunk of time in Europe, it was almost second nature to recycle there (at the very least paper & glass items) a very different reality here in the US.
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In Europe people seem to be more "eco-conscious" but recycling there faces similar challenges. In my view, the main issue in most of the US is that the single-stream policies are badly implemented (so a lot of things don't get to be recycled) and that most material is not recycled within the country but sold to China and other Asian countries where they process it, incinerate it or dump it anyways.