Today I’m going to be talking about recycling certain plastics. Specifically, ones that are harder to recycle. Some materials are harder to recycle like Styrofoam and soft plastics, but t we use these a lot. For example many restaurants put their takeout or leftovers that their consumers want to take home and Styrofoam containers. Most towns don’t pick these up to be recycled and ask that you throw them in the trash. There are places where you can recycle them but it may take a little extra effort. I don’t know if it’s completely worth it, especially with the carbon footprint of how long it takes to get there by car and honestly many people just don’t want to get out of their way just to recycle some plastics. I think as a solution we have to make places we can recycle these plastics more available and find a better alternative than using these plastics. For example you could use a reusable bag when you go shopping, you can also use reusable containers to bring your lunch in, etc. I do think that it is good to get out of your way to recycle plastics but I don’t think that it is a good long-term solution.