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Well, hello there and welcome back. My name is Stephanie Safarian and you're listening to episode 361 of sustainable minimalists,

a two to three-ish times per week show of unintentional and

eco-friendly minimalist living. On today's show, we're discussing what actually

happens to America's discarded stuff, not what we think happens, not what we want to happen,

but what actually happens to the stuff that we declutter.

Here in the United States, we have this pesky little habit.

We tend to think that when we dutifully put our trash bags on the curb

or when we drop our donation bags at wherever we're leaving them, we tend to think that number one the stuff is no longer our problem and

number two especially the case in donations we tend to think that we're

helping somebody else by passing our discards along.

We also tend to believe, because we want to believe it, that whomever is downstream, whoever's getting our stuff, is going to treat it right.

We want to believe that the recycling is going to be recycled.

The trash is going to be respectfully and conscientiously put to rest.

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