I’m not ignorant of all of the ways the Earth is dying, and I’m not trying to mitigate the huge problems we face, but on an incredibly small scale, I feel like I am stabbing the Earth every time I don’t recycle. It has gotten to the point where I will pack empty recyclables in my bag until I get home if there’s no recycling bin nearby.
Recently, I came across this garbage can and panicked because it felt like a test in school. What if I pick the wrong slot? Are they going to have to hand-sort through all of the recyclables to find mine where it doesn’t belong? Am I making someone’s job harder by not following the rules? Will I kill the Earth? Wait, this would be a good sudden-death quiz. My thought process usually ends with me turning something into a BuzzFeed Quiz. Anyway, here you go. Sort everything below into its correct can. Get one wrong, you kill the Earth. Ready?