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Here are tips for recycling and avoiding plastic from a former EPA official:

♻️ Only recycle No. 1, No. 2 or No. 5 plastics
♻️ Replace Tupperware with glass containers
♻️ Avoid black plastic, it's made from recycled electronic waste

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Looking to reduce plastic waste and recycle more?

A shopping platform called Loop plans to bring their reuse model to "absolutely everything — from your laundry detergent to your mouthwash, from your orange juice to your granola."

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Unilever — one of the largest global consumer goods companies — says it plans to cut its use of non-recycled “virgin” plastics in half by 2025.

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One Canadian grocery store hoped to use public shame, and some humor, to get customers to stop using single-use plastics. Their bags said things like "Wart Ointment Wholesale."

But the plan backfired.

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Just 4% of Indianapolis' garbage is recycled each year.

Without universal curbside recycling, residents have to either go somewhere to drop off their recycling, or pay a monthly subscription fee to have someone come and pick it up.

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What recycling tips do you have?

Tell us! ♻️ ⤵️

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