Let’s Go to the M.R.F.!

Sources:

What’s recyclable?

• https://apps.npr.org/plastics-recycling/

How Recycling Works - MRFs and Recycling Facilities

• https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/green-science/recycling.htm

• SciShow: "How Recycling Works"

• Reactions: "How Plastic Recycling Actually Works"

• https://medium.com/cleantech-rising/heres-your-guide-to-how-recycling-actually-works-1f3d97b37904

• https://www.roadrunnerwm.com/blog/what-is-a-materials-recovery-facility

• https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/823768/000155837019000662/wm-20181231x10k.htm

• https://www.economist.com/technology-quarterly/2007/06/09/the-truth-about-recycling

• Broken, Season 1, Episode 4: “Recycling Sham” (Available on Netflix. Watch the series trailer here)

• https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/912150085/waste-land

Downcycling

• https://www.buschsystems.com/resource-center/knowledgeBase/glossary/what-is-downcycling

• https://www.loraas.ca/the-dl-what-is-downcycling/

• https://www.forbes.com/sites/lauratenenbaum/2019/05/15/these-three-plastic-recycling-myths-will-blow-your-mind/

• https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/bottle-recycling-1.5416614

• A Plastic Ocean (Documentary - also available on Netflix)

Bottle Depot Example

• https://www.northhillbottledepot.ca/return-rates

Upcycling Examples

• Skateboards to Furniture

• Ocean Plastic to Sunglasses