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Are You Really Recycling?

Just because you throw it in the Blue Bin doesn’t mean it won’t end up in the landfill

Take a drive around Bend every other Thursdayโ€”or whatever day recycling happens in your hoodโ€”and you’ll see it: streets lined with the big Blue recycling bins, overstuffed like it’s the 26th of December, plastic bags blowing down the street from the spring winds. Curbside recycling got its start in Oregon in 1983 in reactionโ€”ironicallyโ€”to a […]

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