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Bottles and cans, clap your hands!
I’ve recently switched over my obsessive office caffeine intake from black coffee/espresso to ice coffee for the 95 degree NYC days, and bemoaned the fact that my favorite coffee shop(s) all seem to use clear plastic cups that carry #5 inside the recycling arrows. Translation: they can’t be recycled in NYC. Why are they in the recycling arrows then? I don’t know either. Moreover, many now have the #7 on them. Translation: they are “bioplastics” usually made with genetically modified corn, combined with plastic components that require an “institutional anaerobic composting facility” to actually compost. Guess what? We don’t have those in NYC either. You’ve been had.
I also recently attended (and highly recommend) the Song Dong exhibit Waste Not at the MoMA (as pictured above) with my wife and wanted to share the boil down bit of Chinese philosophy regarding frugality as it applies to recycling: if it can still be used, you save it. Now if only the baristas wouldn’t look at me funny when I hand them a used #7.