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So you say you separate your glass and plastic, aluminum and paper, and you put it out for recycling. All right. We all do that. We have a blue bin in my neighborhood. Now maybe you think about how much garbage you'll generate when you buy something, and maybe you pick a product with less packaging. And when you're ready to buy a new computer, you might even, oh, recycle your old one instead of throwing it in with the regular garbage, if you can find a place to recycle it. According to my next guests, more people recycle than vote. Wow. We Americans still throw out an astounding amount of packaging and garbage: four and a half pounds per day, per person, and that adds up to 1,600 pounds of trash every year for each of us.