We have become wasteful as a society, but the more people understand, the more they’ll push toward a change in product development. Doing your small part to make the best decisions for the products you purchase, donate and manage can have a world of impact.
Everyone knows recycling is pretty easy. You throw the bottle into the blue bin or in the recycling bin. The city then throws it into some kind of truck all sorted nice and neat. Turns out, that’s not the whole truth, especially for plastic.
A year has passed since China halted its recycling program which allowed for various countries including the United States and Australia to sell their recycling to China.
For many years, the US depended on recycling operations in China to take our waste. But this partnership came to an end in 2018, when China barred the import of recyclable materials.
