Does recycling work anymore?
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In this Our Changing Climate environmental video essay, I take a look at how recycling works and where recycled items go after they hit the recycling bin. Specifically, I follow a plastic bottle that makes its way from a recycling truck to the processing facility. That plastic bottle finally makes its way across the sea to a recycling plant. The main question this video seeks to answer is whether recycling works anymore and whether it's still environmentally friendly.
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Resources:
1. What Really Happens to Chicago's Blue Cart Recycling? (NPR):
2. SingleStream Recycling (Scientific American)
3. Environemntal LifeCycle Comparisons of Recycling, Landfilling, and IncinerationA Review of Recent Studies (Environmental Defense Fund)
4. Recycling Chaos In U.S. As China Bans 'Foreign Waste' (NPR)
5. The problem of recycling and the key to moving beyond it (Heidi Bischof)
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