Don't Teach Plastic Recycling—Teach This Instead | Suzie Hicks | TEDxGreatPacificGarbagePatch

I want you to take a second and think about your childhood. cast your mind back to those simpler days when all we had to do to fix all of our ecological problems was to remember a conveniently alliterative phrase. Reduce, reuse, recycle.What a time. What a scam. Plastic recycling is the red herring of the century.It brilliantly messages us away from holding the companies that are creating the pollution accountable and instead urges us to police our friends, our families, and ourselves. The Washington Post r ...