As much as we are taught in schools and marketing campaigns tell us, not everything labeled with the recycled symbol can actually be recycled. Some of it is location dependent, some of it has to do with preparation for recycling, and some of it is simply a case of "wishcycling."

Wishcycling is when you put something in the recycle bin because you want to recycle it. You hope it will get turned into some shiny new object. But you don’t really know if it will and so you decide to let someone else down the line figure it out for you.

Your intentions are good, but you’re actually creating a huge pain in the ass for recycling facilities.

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