How does natural resources, equity and money have anything to do with school supplies? Master Recyclers have been asking the tough questions.
Oregon Loves Recycling (and we can keep on loving it)!
Many Master Recyclers wrote and called this month wanting a response to the op-ed piece in the New York Times that claims that recycling is a waste of time. I shared a number of links that I also posted on Facebook. However, I wasn’t going to write a newsletter article myself. My inclination is to ignore these inflammatory stories, because I think we all know that there is value in recycling when it is done right. Ninety-five percent of people in the metro area consider themselves recyclers. We feel that it’s the right thing to do. Don’t give the guy who wrote the piece more attention than deserved.
But then I was thinking that this was an opportunity to talk about how great recycling is here in our state—and how we can make it even better.
Three Steps to Safer Use of Food Plastics
It isn’t easy to make safe and healthy choices with plastic. The numbers included on the labeling only identifies the main resin in a package for food. There may be any amount of unnamed chemicals added to resins to make plastic products. Furthermore, there is a lot that is not known or fully tested about each resin.
Body Care the Clean, Green and Healthy Way
Back to Basics
Master Recyclers recently responded to a survey about what information would be most useful and one of the top answers was a regular refresh on the basics. So for this month, we are revisiting the top 17 questions we get asked just about every time we set up an information booth on recycling. Take the test. See how you do!!