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How Can I Help? · June 22 · 53 min

Rethink Recycling: How Small Acts Lead to Big Change

On this How Can I Help Podcast, Melissa Chaput about being kind to the planet through reducing, reusing, and recycling correctly. Using her “Don’t blow it. Good planets are hard to find” sign as a springboard, they explain how “wish-cycling” and contamination can cause entire recycling truckloads to be rejected and landfilled. Melissa outlines generic recycling guidelines for paper, glass, metal and plastic. They also discuss some of the other 5-R's, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Repair and Rot. Small acts can make the biggest of changes for our planet and our communities. Follow Our Guest: ⁠Melissa Chaput - Smithfield Trash & Recycling Website Melissa Chaput - LinkedIn Join the How Can I Help Movement! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Grab Your Stickers!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠How Can I Help Movement - Website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠How Can I Help Movement - Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠How Can I Help Movement - Facebook⁠⁠

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On this How Can I Help Podcast, Melissa Chaput about being kind to the planet through reducing, reusing, and recycling correctly. Using her “Don’t blow it. Good planets are hard to find” sign as a springboard, they explain how “wish-cycling” and contamination can cause entire recycling truckloads to be rejected and landfilled. Melissa outlines generic recycling guidelines for paper, glass, metal and plastic. They also discuss some of the other 5-R's, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Repair and Rot. Small acts can make the biggest of changes for our planet and our communities.


Follow Our Guest:

⁠Melissa Chaput - Smithfield Trash & Recycling Website

Melissa Chaput - LinkedIn


Join the How Can I Help Movement!


⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Grab Your Stickers!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠


⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠How Can I Help Movement - Website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠How Can I Help Movement - Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠How Can I Help Movement - Facebook⁠⁠

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