We support and participate. We applaud the effort. I want it to work. But before we throw a bottle or can in the bin, what do we do with it? We don’t want the recycle bin to smell like old food or get full of bees, so we rinse out the container. Over and over, every container, a rinse. Clean water is a resource too. It’s not free or unlimited. I have to wonder how this all balances out; the use of precious resources to preserve precious resources.
I stand in front of the sink with a finished jar of peanut butter in my hand. What is the cost/benefit of recycling that plastic container if it takes me 5 minutes of hot water to rinse it out?
Today’s progress:
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