Year of No Garbage — Recycling Myths and the System Behind Plastic Waste (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time.
This episode explores Year of No Garbage by Eve O. Schaub as a systems-level analysis of waste, recycling, and plastic production.
By shifting attention away from individual habits and toward infrastructure and incentives, the book reveals why recycling often fails, why plastic use continues to rise, and why consumer “choice” is tightly constrained by industrial design. This perspective helps explain how greenwashing stabilizes disposable systems — and why meaningful change requires…
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