In 2018, the United States landfilled over 146 million tons of waste which included almost 60 million tons of plastics, glass, metal, and paper. Compare this to the 69 million tons of material that was recycled in that same year. When it comes to the well known phrase 'Reduce, Reuse, Recycle', many of us only think of recycling but it's clearly not the answer to our waste problem. Accessible recycling of most materials varies from place to place, city to city, state to state and 'wish-cycling' leads to contaminated batches of recycled material.  ...