If you watch these videos, you’ll have a better sense of what goes where and why. Now I get why I’m supposed to do this.ĭon’t worry about the staples in your magazines or the glassine windows in your junk mail. Which I found both interesting and helpful. That’s possible because - if you live anywhere - this 8-minute video shows you just how all your stuff is sorted once it gets to the “murf” and then what happens to it after that. At least as of this 2o13 video, Winnipeg was a one-stream city - everything recyclable in one big bin. If you live in Winnipeg, here it is in 3 minutes. New York is a “two-stream” city (basically: paper stuff in one stream, glass, metal, and plastic) except now the city has begun picking up “compostables” separately (click here for instructions, here if you want them in Bengali) and electronics even more separately still. If you live in New York City, here it is in one minute. I’m not an idiot, and my neighbors are not idiots - and many of them have housekeepers who are not idiots - but do many of us really have any idea what happens to the stuff we “recycle?” And what goes where?
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