A couple weeks ago, I took a tour of the recycling plant in Marin. It was interesting to see how everything works--what happens to all my bottles of Two-Buck Chuck and my endless boxes of organic golden flax cereal. But it was also so very depressing.
A lot of work goes into "recycling" our recyclables. And it's a business, really; whatever there's a market for, is what gets recycled.
Oh, and also--Marin County is the biggest waste producer on the planet. Basically, each resident contributes 10 pounds of trash a day. Yeah...
Anyway, I wrote about it in this week's Pacific Sun cover story.
The pig, the turkey and the peacock (sounds like a Burl Ives' ditty) all live across the street from the recycling center, and feed off expired produce from nearby grocers.
Kinda cool, eh?
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