Recycling: You still don't get it
Jul 26, 2024•1 hr 48 min
Episode description
Recycling or trash? It's a question you may have asked yourself when faced with a gross can, a heavily-stickered art project, or some weird plastic thing. Benton hijacks the podcast to teach Abi the behind-the-scenes of the recycling process: How it works, how effective it is, the consequences of "wish-cycling," and why plastic sucks so much. He addresses what steps you can take to make recycling work better, besides just putting things in the right bin.
Sources and further reading
TC Talk episodes mentioned:
- “Cult rhetoric.” https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/techcommtalk/episodes/Cult-rhetoric-e1b1gpi/a-a70h9n0
- “Tech comm from outer space: More lessons from alien movies.” https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/techcommtalk/episodes/Tech-comm-from-outer-space-More-lessons-from-alien-movies-e1md55n/a-a8cdbc1
Wikipedia articles mentioned:
- “Recycling” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recycling
- “Sustainability” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainability
- “Microplastics” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microplastics
- “Greenwashing.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwashing
- “Wishcycling.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wishcycling
Music credits:
- Opening theme: S: Disco Funk Loop by SergeQuadrado | License: Attribution NonCommercial 3.0
- Ensemble. (2008). “So they say” [Song]. On Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog Soundtrack [Album]. Mutant Enemy.
- Wheatus. (2000). “Teenage dirtbag” [Song]. On Wheatus [Album]. Columbia.
Image credit:
- Siera Wild, “Recycling sign green.png.” CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Transcript at https://faculty.mnsu.edu/tctalk/podcast/recycling-you-still-dont-get-it/
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