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The Dutiful Recycler

My scrunchied-hair, neon-wearing self sat in the elementary-school classroom on a sunny afternoon in the early 90’s.

We watched a cartoon video that taught us all about things like recycling and picking up garbage to care for the environment. The chant is firmly etched in my mind: “Reduce, Re-Use, and REEEE-cycle!” (heavy emphasis on the “recycle”!).

This value of eco-consciousness successfully stuck with me over the years, and as an adult I now dutifully recycle my glass, cardboard, and plastic in the weekly curbside pick-up.

I realized recently that unfortunately I had sort of missed the point…

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Beth

Beth is the creator and editor here at Red & Honey, a lifestyle blog for the naturally-minded homemaker. She recently began a passionate love affair with coffee and her life will never be the same. She has had three babies in less than four years, is a professional laundry-avoider, and loves to stay up way too late making weird stuff from scratch that normal people tend to just buy in a store. Hence, the coffee.

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