When I travel, I like to take pictures of innovative signage and recycling bins – I have a whole album devoted to it. No, seriously. Being involved in the waste industry consumes most of my waking life. I work for zero waste program TRUE, volunteer for waste and recycling advocacy groups, and spend a lot of my free time composting at community gardens or talking trash reduction strategies with friends.
Which is why I’ve spent the past year and a half or so concerned with the question of how the COVID-19 pandemic is going to impact the waste industry — especially plastics.
