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It's very tempting to throw things away or even drop them in a recycling bin when we are done with them. Is there a better way?
Share your ideas for extending the “lives” of the items that we buy and use, and their packaging as well!
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It is really important to recycle, reuse, and repurpose plastic. This is because most trash humans throw out is make out of plastic. Plastic takes a really long to completely decompose. So the amount of plastic trash build up is insane because there’s just so much plastic that builds up and doesn’t decompose as fast as it builds up. This is why it is important for us humans to try and recycle, reuse, and repurpose plastic trash. If we continue to reuse plastic then we can slow down the build up of plastic trash.