<p>Recycling or trash? It&#39;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 &quot;wish-cycling,&quot; 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.</p> <p><strong>Sources and further reading</strong></p> <p>TC Talk episodes mentioned:</p> <ul> <li>“Cult rhetoric.” <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/techcommtalk/episodes/Cult-rhetoric-e1b1gpi/a-a70h9n0">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/techcommtalk/episodes/Cult-rhetoric-e1b1gpi/a-a70h9n0</a></li> <li>“Tech comm from outer space: More lessons from alien movies.” <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/techcommtalk/episodes/Tech-comm-from-outer-space-More-lessons-from-alien-movies-e1md55n/a-a8cdbc1">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/techcommtalk/episodes/Tech-comm-from-outer-space-More-lessons-from-alien-movies-e1md55n/a-a8cdbc1</a></li> </ul> <p>Wikipedia articles mentioned:</p> <ul> <li>“Recycling” <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recycling">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recycling</a></li> <li>“Sustainability” <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainability">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainability</a></li> <li>“Microplastics” <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microplastics">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microplastics</a></li> <li>“Greenwashing.” <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwashing">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwashing</a></li> <li>“Wishcycling.” <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wishcycling">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wishcycling</a></li> </ul> <p>Music credits:</p> <ul> <li>Opening theme:  <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/">S: </a><a href="https://freesound.org/people/SergeQuadrado/sounds/511408/">Disco Funk Loop</a> by <a href="https://freesound.org/people/SergeQuadrado/">SergeQuadrado</a> | License: <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/">Attribution NonCommercial 3.0</a></li> <li>Ensemble. (2008). “So they say” [Song]. On <em>Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog Soundtrack</em> [Album]. Mutant Enemy.</li> <li>Wheatus. (2000). “Teenage dirtbag” [Song]. On <em>Wheatus</em> [Album]. Columbia.</li> </ul> <p>Image credit:</p> <ul> <li>Siera Wild, “Recycling sign green.png.” CC BY-SA 4.0 &lt;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0&gt;, via Wikimedia Commons</li> </ul> <p>Transcript at https://faculty.mnsu.edu/tctalk/podcast/recycling-you-still-dont-get-it/</p>