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A Recycling Professional Answers Your Trashy Questions

Posted on June 27, 2024June 27, 2024by Anne-Marie Bonneau
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I asked my social media audience if they had questions for my daughter MK who works as a recycling coordinator. They had many!

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I Paid a Small Fortune to Recycle My Plastic Waste

Posted on August 31, 2021July 5, 2023by Anne-Marie Bonneau

I paid to send plastic waste to Terracycle for recycling but producers should pick up the tab for cleaning up their pollution, not me.

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Why I’m not Excited About Coca-Cola’s 100% Recycled Bottle

Posted on February 16, 2021May 11, 2021by Anne-Marie Bonneau

Coca-Cola is rolling out its new 100% recycled PET plastic bottle along with its old push for consumers to clean up after the company.

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How Does Recycling Work and Should I Bother?

Posted on March 1, 2020March 2, 2020by Mary Katherine Glen
baled cardboard at the recycling center

What gets recycled? What doesn’t? Why does recycling differ from place to place? A waste management student reveals these mysteries and more!

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Is Recycling a Scam?

Posted on November 13, 2019November 13, 2019by Mary Katherine Glen
Metal and cardboard bales ready for recycling

If you’re into the zero waste movement, you may have heard that recycling is a scam.

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Is Zero Waste Possible?

Posted on February 27, 2019June 10, 2019by Anne-Marie Bonneau
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Zero waste represents a goal that only a small number of people will reach. However, we’d make huge strides if everyone at least attempted it.

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7 Tips for a Zero-Waste Kitchen

Posted on January 21, 2015March 14, 2018by Anne-Marie Bonneau

Updated 01/05/18 I love my (nearly) zero-waste kitchen routine. I eat a delicious, healthy diet and have simplified my shopping habits. But it did take me a couple of years to (nearly) perfect this routine and I may never achieve complete zero-waste. (Remember calculus class? You merely approach zero.)

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