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Recycling rates must improve. However, some of the (1) rhetoric has gotten out of hand. It’s not helping. More to the point: We have got to stop minimizing the contribution that recycling makes.
A line from the important and devastating film, “The Story of Plastic,” goes: “We cannot recycle our way out of this mess.”
We believe this insinuates that recycling serves no purpose and it could take the pressure off (2) personal responsibility.
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Yes, there are those calling for an end to all single-use plastic products. But we need to champion today’s recycling efforts and start saying things like “let’s do better,” (3) instead of rhetorically draining a critical tool of its value.
We also need to make recycling easier and (4) more attractive for the consumer, particularly in the COVID-19 era, and there is a way we can do this that may not be familiar to many Americans: reverse vending machines (RVMs).
RVMs accept PET bottles for recycling and give consumers (5) a refund or their container deposit back.