8 recycling mistakes MOST people make and how to avoid them

Heidi Bischof
8 min readOct 31, 2018

While recycling isn’t the green solution to waste we once thought, it still plays an important role in managing our waste, at least for the time being. I like to see myself (and our society) as transitioning towards zero waste, which not only means generating less waste, but also generating less recycling. Yep you read that right: we need to recycle LESS (read more about that in an earlier article). This basically means we need to buy less disposable stuff. But in the meantime, here are a few tips to make sure you’re recycling correctly.

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Heidi Bischof

Sustainability educator & activist, founder @ Earth Ethic