Letter of the Day: City recycling flyer

Recently I got a flyer in the mail from the City which said we will no longer be recycling plastic bags and plastic film. It isn’t because those plastics are not recyclable, the flyer said that China no longer wants that plastic in the recyclables they buy from us. It said China is the main buyer of our recyclables, and it is too difficult to find another buyer.
The bottom of the flyer said “reduce, reuse.” The third “r,” recycle (my children still learn “the