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#recycling.

Thirty years ago Taiwan was drowning in rubbish and called Garbage Island. Then classical music started playing in the streets, and people came out.

You rinse the jar, sort the bin, and the truck drives off. So does any of it get recycled? Here is where your recycling really goes, stage by stage.

Paper feels like the greener pick at the till, but the honest answer depends on one thing most people overlook. Here is what the evidence shows.

That sheet of foil took a lot of energy to make. Here is when to reuse it, when to bin it, and how to recycle it so it actually gets a second life.