When I recycle, I take personal responsibility to make sure I am conscious of what I can recycle. This is something that I do to help the work of those who then have to take it from the front of my house. Especially when it comes to plastics, I check the recycling number of each item to ensure that they can be taken to the recycling center. I also take it upon myself to make sure that the plastic is as clean as possible, removing any food and rinseing it off. I try to remember to remove the labels, but I do not always remember. This is the responsibility that I have given myself because I can, meaning I have the time and resources available to me for me to take these extra steps. The moment that the recycling leaves the front of my house I no longer feel responsible for it. I do not know if my efforts help in any way or if it all just ends up in landfills. I have not researched how my recycling center follows through and how they process the plastic. Because I do not have access to the recycling I don’t hold any responsibility for it, the kind of “out of sight out of mind” mindset. I think that taking the responsibility of sorting recycling is not something that everyone can do. I believe that there should be more transparency on what happens once your recycling or trash is picked up. I think that people would be more inclined to do more if they were able to see that it makes a difference. In my years of recycling I have not thought much about waste workers, I have only become more aware of them because of my own research and discussions like the ones that we have in class. I do not know what their work is like, I can only imagine from what I have heard and read. I imagine that their work involves a lot of sorting, each type of plastic is recycled in different ways and there are entirely different procedures for other materials like paper and cardboard. I also think that there is so much that they have to throw away due to them not being able to process it.