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Packaging, plastics, disposable products, litter, waste reduction, reuse, recycling, and who pays for collection and disposal.

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Principles

  • Judge reuse and recycling by materials recovered and total resource use, not collection totals alone.
  • Include sorting, transport, contamination, and the actual destination of discarded material.

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Does collecting more material for recycling prove that more was recycled?
Yes; everything collected is automatically recovered.
Yes; transport and processing never affect the result.
No; sorting, contamination, processing, and final destinations also matter.

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