Maris interviews Stephanie Baker from KW Plastics at the Plastics Recycling Conference 2020 in the Opryland Hotel. KW Plastics is the largest plastics recycler in the United States and has trouble getting enough plastic – WHAT!!! All we hear from our cities is that China ruined the plastics market and no one wants it anymore. What is the disconnect? Ask your elected representatives to make sure recycling works and to put the right people in the job of negotiating with waste haulers and recyclers. We don’t have to accept that it’s a broken system; FIX IT!
Category - Community
A lot of restaurants and food providers have begun switching out petroleum based take-out containers like styrofoam and plastic clamshells with compostable containers...
Jess Johnson shows how to use scrap fabric for gift wrapping the Furoshiki way. No tape or single-use wrapping paper, just a repurposed piece of fabric folded and tied...
Jess Trash Talks about her daily carry kit of reusables that replaces singe use disposable items throughout her day. It’s not that hard to say “No Plastic...
Let Jess tell you about a great zero waste idea to use in place of watered down laundry detergent in plastic containers. Even though plastic laundry detergent jugs are...
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Sustainable Restaurant Action Campaign
After the recent Metro Nashville announcement that plastic clamshell to go containers are now added to the list of styrofoam to go containers as un-recyclable, we...