It's Thursday, March 28th, 2024 from Peach Fish Productions.

It's the gist I'm Mike Pesca.

Okay, here's a little quiz.

What activity do you engage in probably every day that has a 95%

fail rate 95% of your effort is wasted oh we all do things that it takes a while to see the results, right? We go to the

gym that only shows up overtime, or duo lingo, or to be more abstract, loving ones children, it doesn't always come back to you in the moment

but a 95% fail rate 19 out of 20 efforts are for naught and you do it every day

now I remember there were those lines for tickets probably still are

popular Broadway shows and my sister when she was younger

she'd stand in line.

You didn't always get a ticket but every once in a while

like I think every two or three maybe three or four times she get a ticket but every once in a while like I think every two or three maybe

three or four times she get a ticket for rent for 20 bucks day of right I remember

she went once she went twice I'm like is this so wise then she went again she got

the tickets if she had got 19, I'd say you got to stop, Laura.

And this is a huge waste of time.

So what is this 95% fell rate activity?

It is revealed here in this report on the PBS News Hour that they did two weeks

ago. On average, the world produces 430 million metric tons of plastic every year. The United States alone produces tens of millions

of tons of plastic waste annually. Yet on average in the United States only about 5 to six percent of plastic is recycled.

I know it was bad. I knew it was a lot of plastics that weren't recycled. I suspected

most plastics. We quote-unquote recycle, don't actually get recycled but 5% oh I know all the

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