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Is the recycling system broken?

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Reduce, Reuse and Recycle

Professor monnock's son believes that focusing only on recycling may not be the best idea. If people know recycling is an option, they tend to use more resources. They reduce any guilty feelings by telling themselves that the material will be re cycled anyway. Reduce and reuse is better than re cycling. And the cost of recycling is often not emphasized enough. Do you remember my quiz question? I asked you how many kilograms of waste the average british person generated last year. The real answer is b 480 kilograms. Multiply that by the u.K. Population of 66 million ens start to see the size of the problem. To day, been talking about the problems associated with

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