One Very Bad Habit Is Fueling the Global Recycling Meltdown
If you’re like me, you’ve looked at a paper coffee cup or an empty tube of toothpaste and thought, “Is this recyclable?” before tossing it in the recycling bin, hoping someone, somewhere, would sort it out. People in the waste management industry call this habit “wishcycling.” According to Marian Chertow, director of the Solid Waste […]
This article is actually covering a large number of bad habits, unless they're generalizing laziness as a bad habit. Of course, not recycling is the highest form of laziness, but then the degrees of laziness range from not rinsing out cans/bottles/plastic containers to not taking the time to learn the recycling rules.
OTOH, manufacturers and recyclers could also put more effort in to making it easier for consumers.
