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Recycling Rut

Living on Earth
August 14, 2013
  • By Ricky Zhang
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Youth Radio producer Ricky Zhang goes to high school in Oakland. He sent us this story after he got tired of stepping over trash and wondered how a school could have a successful recycling program and a major trash problem at the same time.

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