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The podcast discusses the importance of recycling and the reasons why people don't uphold their responsibility to recycle. They mention the impact of recycling on climate change and animals, such as turtles. It is suggested that education and advertising should be used to emphasize the importance of recycling, especially in low-income communities. The issue of people not knowing what can and can't be recycled is also discussed, with suggestions to ask for clarification or label trash cans. The use of reusable items is promoted as a solution to reduce plastic waste. Hello, everyone. It's your host, Warth Coker, and today's podcast is about recycling. I'm here with my co-host, Jose Antonio, and our special guest star, Simba, who is joined with at last and definitely least. And so today is going to be a discussion style podcast, and we're going to talk about, you know, recycling and why people can't uphold their basic civic responsibility of recycling. So what do you think, Jose? What do you think? I think recycling is very important because it affects climate change. Yeah. And like animals in the sea. The turtles. Yeah, the turtles. The turtles. Straws get in their noses and like it just kills them, which is unfortunate. So it's important we use advertisements and people in power to emphasize the importance of recycling in communities, especially low income communities. I feel like education is more important than advertisement in this situation. I have a question for you. Especially about... Yeah, I have a question for you. Recycling is very easy, right? Yes. So why don't people uphold their easy civic... They're lazy. Can you expand on that? People are weak and lazy, and they need to recycle more, but they won't because they're lazy and weak and they need to do better. Now, I think it's also important that we educate them on things that can and can't be recycled, as that makes things like a lot easier because a lot of people, like they know recycling is good and so they'll just try and like recycle everything. But getting stuff that's actually trash out of like recycling is really expensive and hard. And so like we should focus on making it so that that doesn't happen and so we can do stuff more efficiently. Yes. All right. What do you think, Christine? What do you think about people like, you know, who don't know something is recyclable or not? What do you think they should do in that situation? I think that in that situation, it should just go in the trash because... Or shouldn't you like ask somebody, right? You could ask the government. Or you could ask, yeah. You can create like websites where you can offer requests on what is and isn't recycled. Or I think that also they can be like, like trash cans can be labelled with like what belongs in which bin. I completely agree. All right. Ayo. If somebody doesn't know something is recyclable or not, one, they can ask around or two, just don't put it in the recycling bin because if it's not recyclable and you put it in the recycling bin, that could harm a lot of people and it's not good for the environment. To jump in here, another solution is people can just start using, you know, reusable bottles, reusable plates instead of, you know, plastic because I don't think it's the way that we recycle or waste our plastic. I think our use of plastic is overall too high. Like we shouldn't be using this much plastic to begin with. I feel like we can really, you know, we can cut down on that, reduce that waste and start using reusable things. But how should we do that? By using reusable things. OK, but we can't like force everybody to do that. And that's all for today, folks. And signing out, your host, Warth Coker. Jose Antonio, the co-hosts. Um, Simba Adams. Christine Leist. And Leist. Ayo, ayo. Ew.