Stop Recycling — You’re Killing the Planet
<p>I spent most of 2021 driving around the United States <a href="https://medium.com/@amandaclaypool/i-spent-12-months-living-in-a-subaru-outback-this-is-what-its-like-to-live-in-a-car-c38e2cd7c14a" rel="noopener">living in my car.</a> I stopped in Jackson, WY for the summer and picked up several part-time jobs.</p>
<p>One of those jobs was on the sorting line of the municipal recycling center. On cardboard and plastic days I used a rake to fish contaminants out of the recycling stream. And on aluminum days I stood alongside the conveyer belt and removed contaminants by hand.</p>
<p>It wasn’t a glamorous job but it paid well enough. And it taught me something about recycling that I didn’t know.</p>
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