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DeweyWatermelon
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My mom doesn't care at all about recycling. It is supposedly required to recycle in my county, but I guess you could have this option removed if you wanted. I am considering letting my mom choose this option as it is so hopeless. There was a 20/20 or 60 minutes showing about garbage men caught dumping the recycling bins into the regular trash truck. Ever since this thing, she believes that recycling is not real and is just dumped into the regular trash later at the dumpster. I have seen two different trucks for trash and recycling. I have tried to educate her about how to recycle based on the instructions given such as removing the lids and only recycling plastic 1 and 2, but it is so hopeless after a few years. She continues to leave things without rinsing and leaving caps and placing plastic bags and napkins in the recycling bin. I find it insulting, but no amount of anything I say helps. I am just at my wit ends to make recycling work, and I want to remove this recycling program just because of this. Recycling is the future, and I believe in it, but it is difficult when my mom won't listen to make recycling easier at home. She told me she doesn't care about recycling. I really don't know how to sincerely have her open her mind. She comes from a time that recycling was unheard of in school. What do you think I should do? I think giving up is the best thing.