Do you have ‘recycling bias’?

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By Kate YoderAug 3, 2023, 10:15 am229 pts
It might be time to throw your preconceptions about recycling in the garbage. A decades-long effort to educate people about recycling has mostly backfired, according to new research. The study, published last week in Nature Sustainability, found that an overemphasis on recycling has distracted us from better…

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