Recycling is one of the most obvious climate solutions but most of the recycling that we put out on the curb it goes into a landfill or it gets burned and incinerated here at Rabbit Recycling in the Kensington section of Philadelphia workers are sorting through trash that will actually be recycled let's take a walk inside and find out how polyurethane a polyethylene foam this is an example of our five seven plastic arts and crafts pens pencils.

laptops even old phones cameras If we want to reduce plastic waste or we want to reduce plastic in general we want to find solutions for the material that already exists one thing most people don't realize is how much cleaning has to be done before recycling the technology relies on the material being clean our customers are opening snack wrappers and wiping them down and letting them dry to take advantage of Rabbit Recycling customers have to pay to recycle it's very hard to not buy something that doesn't have a plastic packaging so the best strategy is to clean it and get it back to these companies and if we can use that pressure and the consumer side I think you're going to see better results many say the real solution lies with the manufacturers imagine if the makers of all this plastic were responsible for recycling it