Commentary: If you care, take a more active role in recycling

Recent headlines have announced the death of recycling. Since China stopped accepting almost all of our recycling, the value of recyclable materials has plummeted, leading many cities to close their recycling operations.Recycling has been criticized as an occult practice that has little real environmental impact, and a recent article casts the recycling industry as a new form of colonialism. Many of us are familiar with the statistic that only 9% of plastic in the United States actually get recy