<div dir="ltr"><img src="cid:ii_lwscjdzr0" alt="image.png" width="196" height="75" style="margin-right: 0px;"><br><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Here is Chaz Miller's most recent Waste360 column, “<a href="https://www.waste360.com/waste-recycling/recycling-works-if-we-don-t-counter-the-naysayers-it-won-t" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)">Recycling Works.  If We Don’t Counter the Naysayers, It Won’t</a>”, looks at combating media misinformation about recycling.  When we take the effort to separate our recyclables from trash, we want to know our time was well spent.  Unfortunately, the barrage of lies about plastic recycling is taking its toll on recycling other materials.  MassRecycle’s campaign to tell the truth about recycling is an example of how to tell your story. <b><i>Take a look</i></b>.  Perhaps we can launch a program to tell our story in Oklahoma.  </font></p><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div><div><br></div><div><img src="cid:ii_lwsclkkr1" alt="image.png" width="216" height="71"><br></div><div><div class="gmail-TwoColumnLayout-Head" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid;font-family:"Source Sans 3";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:medium"><div class="gmail-ArticleBase-Header" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid;margin-bottom:32px;display:grid"><div style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid"><h1 class="gmail-ArticleBase-HeaderTitle" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid;font-size:2.25rem;margin:0px 0px 8px;line-height:3.094rem"><span class="gmail-ArticleBase-LargeTitle" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid;display:block">Recycling Works. If We Don’t Counter the Naysayers,</span><span class="gmail-ArticleBase-LargeTitle" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid;display:block">It Won’t</span></h1><p class="gmail-ArticleBase-HeaderSummary" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid;margin:0px;font-size:1.125rem;line-height:1.688rem">You’ve probably seen a newspaper, television, or online article insisting that recycling isn’t working. They say what we put in our recycling bins doesn’t get recycled. Instead, it ends up in landfills. Some of these stories come from organizations with an axe to grind against plastic products. They fear that successful plastic recycling will undercut their efforts to eliminate plastics, so they insist plastics can’t be recycled. Some come from reporters who pass them on without taking the time to fact check them. Others pop up in letters to the editor or in online comments.</p></div></div></div><div class="gmail-TwoColumnLayout-Content" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid;font-family:"Source Sans 3";display:flex;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:medium"><div class="gmail-TwoColumnLayout-Body" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid"><div class="gmail-ArticleBase-Body" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid;display:grid;margin-bottom:0px"><div class="gmail-ArticleBase-Contributors" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid;margin-bottom:24px;display:flex"><div class="gmail-Contributors gmail-Contributors_variant_normal gmail-Contributors_hasAvatar" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid;display:flex"><div class="gmail-Contributors-AvatarWrapper" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid;display:flex;margin-right:10px"><a class="gmail-Contributors-AvatarLink" aria-label="Chaz Miller" href="https://www.waste360.com/author/chaz-miller" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid;color:inherit;text-decoration:inherit"><img aria-hidden="true" class="gmail-Contributors-Avatar" src="https://eu-images.contentstack.com/v3/assets/blt4a147f9e36f0754a/bltac3f61f346cb9a22/651ea45fa16382fdb4053336/Chaz_20Miller_1_1_0.jpg?width=100&auto=webp&quality=80&disable=upscale" alt="Picture of Chaz Miller" title="Picture of Chaz Miller" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 1px; border-style: solid; border-image: initial; display: inline-block; vertical-align: middle; max-width: 100%; height: 48px; object-fit: cover; width: 48px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.5rem;"></a></div><div class="gmail-Contributors-InfoWrapper" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid"><a class="gmail-Contributors-ContributorName" href="https://www.waste360.com/author/chaz-miller" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid;color:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;display:inline;font-size:0.875rem;line-height:1.203rem">Chaz Miller </a><span class="gmail-Contributors-ContributorTitle" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid;font-size:0.875rem;line-height:1.203rem">, Semi-retired, 40-year veteran of the waste and recycling industry</span><p class="gmail-Contributors-Date" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid;margin:0px;font-size:0.75rem;line-height:0.938rem">April 29, 2024</p></div></div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 organizations with an axe to grind against plastic products. They fear that successful plastic recycling will undercut their efforts to eliminate plastics, so they insist plastics can’t be recycled. Some come from reporters who pass them on without taking the time to fact check them. Others pop up in letters to the editor or in online comments.</span></p><p class="gmail-ContentParagraph gmail-ContentParagraph_align_left" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid;margin-right:0px;margin-left:0px"><span class="gmail-ContentText gmail-ContentText_variant_bodyNormal" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid;font-size:1.125rem;line-height:1.688rem">Unfortunately, the result is a media drowning us in misinformation about recycling. This attempt to undermine plastic recycling is harming all recycling. People who want to recycle lose faith when they are told their efforts are wasted.</span></p><p class="gmail-ContentParagraph gmail-ContentParagraph_align_left" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid;margin-right:0px;margin-left:0px"><span class="gmail-ContentText gmail-ContentText_variant_bodyNormal" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid;font-size:1.125rem;line-height:1.688rem">As I noted in my last </span><span class="gmail-ContentText gmail-ContentText_variant_bodyNormal" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid;font-size:1.125rem;line-height:1.688rem"><a class="gmail-ContentText-BodyTextChunk gmail-ContentText-BodyTextChunk_link" target="_self" href="https://www.waste360.com/plastics/the-realities-of-plastics-recycling" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid;text-decoration-style:inherit;text-decoration-color:inherit">column</a></span><span class="gmail-ContentText gmail-ContentText_variant_bodyNormal" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid;font-size:1.125rem;line-height:1.688rem">, I’ve gotten used to being asked by friends if their recyclables are being thrown away. This also happens when people I meet learn I am involved in recycling. They too want to know if all of their recyclables, not just the plastics, are being thrown away. </span></p><p class="gmail-ContentParagraph gmail-ContentParagraph_align_left" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid;margin-right:0px;margin-left:0px"><span class="gmail-ContentText gmail-ContentText_variant_bodyNormal" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid;font-size:1.125rem;line-height:1.688rem">We need to turn the tide. It's time for recyclers to tell the story of where the stuff in our recycling bins goes. It’s time to correct the lies and out-of-context statements that are eroding trust in recycling. If we don’t, our silence guarantees our recycling efforts will fail.</span></p><p class="gmail-ContentParagraph gmail-ContentParagraph_align_left" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid;margin-right:0px;margin-left:0px"><span class="gmail-ContentText gmail-ContentText_variant_bodyNormal" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid;font-size:1.125rem;line-height:1.688rem">Fortunately, some groups are telling the story. Last year, </span><span class="gmail-ContentText gmail-ContentText_variant_bodyNormal" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid;font-size:1.125rem;line-height:1.688rem"><a class="gmail-ContentText-BodyTextChunk gmail-ContentText-BodyTextChunk_link" target="_blank" href="https://massrecycle.org/" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid;text-decoration-style:inherit;text-decoration-color:inherit">MassRecycle</a></span><span class="gmail-ContentText gmail-ContentText_variant_bodyNormal" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid;font-size:1.125rem;line-height:1.688rem">, the state recycling organization in Massachusetts, decided enough was enough. The group put together a successful campaign to get accurate information to media in the state. </span></p><p class="gmail-ContentParagraph gmail-ContentParagraph_align_left" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid;margin-right:0px;margin-left:0px"><span class="gmail-ContentText gmail-ContentText_variant_bodyNormal" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid;font-size:1.125rem;line-height:1.688rem">MassRecycle didn’t argue that recycling is working. They showed how it is working. They set up tours of ”MRFs”, the materials recovery facilities that process recyclables. Reporters, elected officials, citizens and businesses visited local MRFs to see how their recyclables are being processed and sent to end markets. If a picture is worth a thousand words, a MRF tour is worth hundreds of thousands. It shows recycling in action.  Telling the story proves that recycling is working.</span></p><p class="gmail-ContentParagraph gmail-ContentParagraph_align_left" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid;margin-right:0px;margin-left:0px"><span class="gmail-ContentText gmail-ContentText_variant_bodyNormal" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid;font-size:1.125rem;line-height:1.688rem">A year after launching its program, MassRecycle is still giving weekly MRF tours. As Gretchen Carey, MassRecycle President, said at a </span><span class="gmail-ContentText gmail-ContentText_variant_bodyNormal" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid;font-size:1.125rem;line-height:1.688rem"><a class="gmail-ContentText-BodyTextChunk gmail-ContentText-BodyTextChunk_link" target="_blank" href="https://nerc.org/documents/conferences/Fall%202023%20Conference/NERC%202023%20Fall%20Conference%20Program.pdf" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid;text-decoration-style:inherit;text-decoration-color:inherit">fall recycling conference</a></span><span class="gmail-ContentText gmail-ContentText_variant_bodyNormal" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid;font-size:1.125rem;line-height:1.688rem">, “We believe the people who come to visit are our best advocates. We always ask them to tell people what they have seen and spread the word that recycling is really happening.” As a result, MassRecycle is a go-to resource for local reporters.</span></p><p class="gmail-ContentParagraph gmail-ContentParagraph_align_left" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid;margin-right:0px;margin-left:0px"><span class="gmail-ContentText gmail-ContentText_variant_bodyNormal" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid;font-size:1.125rem;line-height:1.688rem">State recycling groups and local recycling officials are the best people to tell the story. They know the facts. They collect and process recyclables on a daily basis. They can set up MRF tours and become trusted news sources for reporters. They can proudly say, “These are our programs and they are working”.</span></p><p class="gmail-ContentParagraph gmail-ContentParagraph_align_left" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid;margin-right:0px;margin-left:0px"></p><p class="gmail-ContentParagraph gmail-ContentParagraph_align_left" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid;margin-right:0px;margin-left:0px"><span class="gmail-ContentText gmail-ContentText_variant_bodyNormal" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid;font-size:1.125rem;line-height:1.688rem">Let’s tell the story in all fifty states. Let’s step up and counter the misinformation.  We have a story to tell.  Let’s go out and tell it.</span></p></div></div><div class="gmail-SocialShare" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid;display:flex"><div class="gmail-SocialShare gmail-SocialShare_variant_normal gmail-ArticleBase-SocialShare gmail-ArticleBase-SocialShare_second" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid;display:flex;margin-right:16px;margin-bottom:48px"><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" aria-label="Linkedin" href="https://www.linkedin.com/sharing/share-offsite/?url=https://www.waste360.com/waste-recycling/recycling-works-if-we-don-t-counter-the-naysayers-it-won-t" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid;color:inherit;text-decoration:inherit"><span class="gmail-SocialShare-IconWrapper gmail-SocialShare-IconWrapper_variant_normal" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid;display:inline-flex"><span class="gmail-SocialShare-Icon gmail-SocialShare-Icon_variant_normal gmail-SocialShare-Icon_type_linkedin" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid;display:inline-block;height:20px;width:20px"></span></span></a><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" aria-label="Facebook" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https://www.waste360.com/waste-recycling/recycling-works-if-we-don-t-counter-the-naysayers-it-won-t" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid;color:inherit;text-decoration:inherit"><span class="gmail-SocialShare-IconWrapper gmail-SocialShare-IconWrapper_variant_normal" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid;display:inline-flex"><span class="gmail-SocialShare-Icon gmail-SocialShare-Icon_variant_normal gmail-SocialShare-Icon_type_facebook" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid;display:inline-block;height:20px;width:20px"></span></span></a><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" aria-label="Twitter" href="http://www.twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=https://www.waste360.com/waste-recycling/recycling-works-if-we-don-t-counter-the-naysayers-it-won-t" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid;color:inherit;text-decoration:inherit"><span class="gmail-SocialShare-IconWrapper gmail-SocialShare-IconWrapper_variant_normal" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid;display:inline-flex"><span class="gmail-SocialShare-Icon gmail-SocialShare-Icon_variant_normal gmail-SocialShare-Icon_type_twitter" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid;display:inline-block;height:20px;width:20px"></span></span></a></div></div><div class="gmail-ArticleBase-ContributorsWrapper" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid;margin-bottom:40px"><h2 class="gmail-ArticleBase-ContributorsTitle" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid;font-size:1.625rem;margin:0px 0px 24px;line-height:2.438rem">About the Author(s)</h2><div class="gmail-ArticleBase-ContributorsSummary" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid"><div class="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