00:00Wish cycling is not a term to describe wishing you were cycling.
00:05Instead, Jessica Higgs, a PhD candidate at University of California, Berkeley, describes
00:10it is the action that most of us take out of benevolence, grounded in environmentalism,
00:16virtue signaling, and learned behavior that many materials can go into the recycling bin,
00:22even though we are also learning that they should not be placed there.
00:26In other words, it's putting something in the recycling bin and wishing it to be recycled,
00:30even though there is little evidence to confirm your desires.
00:34Much to popular dismay, you are actually not helping to recycle by wish cycling.
00:40The well-intentioned act is hopeful in theory, but in practice, Jill Martin, a director of
00:45state recycling programs, says,
00:47By putting things that don't belong in the recycling system, we consider that contamination,
00:51and it costs a lot of money and sometimes safety concerns at the recycling facility.
00:58Try not to confuse reuse with recycling, and loose plastic items smaller than a credit card
01:04can likely not be recycled.
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