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Making Sense of Recycling with Nena Shaw

Blue bins, green bins, have we BEEN recycling wrong?? This week Raj and Noah work up the nerve to conserve and welcome Nena Shaw Director of Resource Conservation and Sustainability Division at the EPA, to talk through the problem with plastics, making haste with food waste, and how to re-imagine our narrow definitions of what it means to integrate recycling into our lives.


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