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Rethink the Bins

Your Guide to Smart Recycling and Less Household Waste

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Have you heard that recycling is broken? Let's fix it.

"A helpful, well-written guide to making the most of recycling and composting." - Kirkus Reviews

If you want to reduce the amount of waste you generate but aren't sure where to begin, Rethink the Bins shows you how. This book will help you:

  • Understand what happens to waste after the bins leave your curb or building
  • Implement best practices for recycling and composting
  • Feel empowered to start with small changes that make a difference
  • Create SMART goals around waste reduction and recycling
  • "This well-researched guide clears up the many myths and mysteries of what happens to the nearly 8 pounds of trash we Americans each create daily," says author James Dillehay. "It should be required reading to help future generations embrace a circular economy."

    When you're done reading this book and completing the waste tracking worksheets, you will:

  • Know how to better manage your waste at home and away
  • Feel more confident that the items you toss into recycling and compost bins are actually being recycled or composted
  • Figuring out what to toss where is not as hard as it might seem. Once you have made changes at home, you will probably want to share the message with your friends and neighbors. Please do!

    One person or one family can make a tiny difference. Thousands or millions of households doing the same can change the world.

    Let's pave a path to a less wasteful future and recycling that works!

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        December 1, 2020
        A manual delivers an explanation of what happens to household recycling and describes how to reduce waste. In this green living book, Goldstein takes readers through the process of recycling common household products and provides strategies for maximizing recycling efficiency and reducing overall waste generation. The guide explains how recycling moves from a curbside bin to a sorting facility and the likely paths that paper, metal, glass, plastic, and food waste will follow. The author addresses the challenges created in recent years by "China's decision to stop buying trash and recyclables from North America and Europe" as well as the problems of contamination and inefficiency that limit the broader adoption of recycling practices. The book's perspective is shaped by the fact that Goldstein lives in Seattle, which not only has a robust recycling program, but also offers municipal pickup of compost. The author is aware that such services are unavailable to most readers and supplies suggestions for private services and DIY alternatives to accomplish the same goals. While the work was written before the Covid-19 pandemic, an afterword addresses ways in which public health measures limit the feasibility of some of the manual's suggestions, though Goldstein urges readers to continue to search for ways to reduce the impact of their consumption. A bulleted list of highlights ends most chapters, and readers are encouraged to visit the author's website for printable versions of the worksheets included in the guide. Goldstein is a knowledgeable writer and does a good job of coherently explaining the often complex world of solid waste. In a largely judgment-free manner, she explains the challenges and tradeoffs of different approaches to recycling and presents solutions for readers who are trying to limit their waste within real-world constraints. There is occasionally a touch of wishful thinking, as in the suggestion that switching to a smaller garbage can "might encourage your neighbors to wonder why your garbage bin is smaller than theirs." But even readers who do not find themselves discussing waste management with their neighbors will find the book useful and informative. A helpful, well-written guide to making the most of recycling and composting.

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