The rules for recycling can feel very confusing. However, understanding the basics of the recycling infrastructure helps to simplify the messaging. After giving hundreds of presentations on this topic, Gretchen Carey has determined the most compelling way to offer insight into the recycling world. Included in this one-hour talk are these topics:

• Common misinformation in the media

• Where trash goes

• The waste bans and waste regulations (state, regional, or national)

• Where recycling goes and how it gets processed

• What materials belong in the bin

• Confusing terms (reusable, recyclable, compostable)

• How recycled material is a commodity on the market, and how China and Covid affected the price of that material

• How the market has recovered

• How to Reduce, Reuse, and recycle… in that order

• Organics (food waste) diversion: what goes in and what doesn't.

• What you can do to support the recycling industry save the planet

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