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How to recycle properly in Michigan
About 20%-40% of recycled items shouldn’t be recycled
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We only have one Earth, so we only have one chance to do it right.
This Earth Day, we’re focusing on one of the best ways to reduce waste and help the environment:
recycling.
Unfortunately, not everyone knows how to recycle the right way, and so a significant portion of recycled items don’t even end up getting recycled at all.
Data shows that, depending on the community, about 20-40 percent of recycled items received by sorting facilities can’t actually be recycled. Joe Munem with Green For Life in New Boston says that some of these items are extreme like the deer carcass he saw recycled once but most items that aren’t recyclable are sent by people with good intentions who just don’t know better.