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What You Buy Goes Around and Comes Around

Today's guest blog is courtesy of Communities for Recycling, an initiative of The Recycling Partnership. The original post can be found here.

Photo of store shelves with products

Ever wonder what happens to your face cream container, hand soap bottle, soda can, plastic bottle, or anything recyclable after you put it in your recycling? Or did you ever stop to consider where the shipping box came from before hitting your doorstep? And when you’re finished with a product, how do you know if the item is recyclable in your community.

These questions swirl around before our eyes every time we finish with something. Do I compost it? Recycle it? Reuse it? Or trash it? Or ……?

What Can I Recycle?

Before we can answer that…

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