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Hey, I hope you're doing well. This is a mini Bloom Tuesday episode on Green Dreamer podcast. And today, I'll be sharing two positive things that we can

celebrate in sustainability as of late. The first one is something called reverse vending

machines. What is a reverse vending machine? Basically, if you think of vending machines,

you know, we put in money, pick what we want, and a product or beverage like soda will come out.

Reverse vending machines are where, and this is just one example, we would put in an empty plastic bottle after drinking all the liquid, into this machine, and then get a coupon for discounts, vouchers, or some other immediate reward for doing so. And the idea is that

this can incentivize people to recycle better. Now, like we mentioned in the last Bloom Tuesday episode,

where we had zero-waste expert Jonathan Levy walk us through recycling 101 and how to recycle

properly. The goal is the first have less to recycle to begin with

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