Most of us dutifully place our items into the correct bins, yet only 9% of plastics are recycled.
This list utilizes the updated 7 R's, which include: Rethink, Refuse, Reduce, Re-choose, Repair, Reuse, and Recycle. Recycling, while a good idea, is broken in the U.S. Most of us dutifully place our items into the correct bins, yet only 9% of plastics are recycled. Therefore, recycling, while still significant, is the least impactful of the Rs.