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Recycling Is Broken. Here’s How We Can Fix It.
Season 7
Episode 28
For many items that end up in the recycling bin, you’ve actually created more trash by trying to recycle them. You’ve also made it harder to recycle the stuff that CAN be saved, and basically demonstrated that recycling is broken...at least the way we do it today. Here’s how we can fix it.
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