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Healthy Living: Recycling the Wrong Things

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates that 75 percent of American waste is recyclable, but we only recycle about 30 percent.

You can do your part by recycling plastic bottles, glass, and paper, but if you add your used coffee cup to that pile, you may be forcing your facility to treat your whole bin as trash.

Katie Boomgaard explains.

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