Honorable Mentions
"5 cents in Maine and NY. Non-returnable in Massachusetts. PE, PET, Number 1 or is it a 7? Help!" by Allen Hawker
"If only I could recycle my career path" by Miles Andrews
"Hmmm..., poly-this, tere-that, how will our machines pick up all this?" by Rebecca Saxena
"Look! Somebody threw away a perfectly good Yeti!" by Sue Kelly
Other Submissions
"2022 is going to be the year I erase my carbon footprint..." by John Lutz
"Stanley hoped that none of this plastic would end up in the Pacific Ocean." by Dave Matta
"Bob wondered if he was the only employee who actually rinsed out his recyclables before disposing of them." by Dave Matta
"Carl begins to realize that his 12 root beers/day habit may also be impacting the environment." by Douglas Price
"Rather than all this waste, we need to recycle our productive output." by Marvin Sager
"The recycle loop is not working...but I've learned to juggle." by George Hudak
"Wow! We’ve collected all this recycling. Now what? I’ll post on social media for a solution!" by Ray Lewis
"Recover the residual product for reworking into future production sounds great - but I'm not sure the "residual" in some of these containers is the original product!" by George Hudak
"One man's trash is another man's treasure" by Tim Feider
"Damn it! I hate sorting this recycling! I need to design a fast scanning tool (Which takes an IR spectrum of the plastic) on my conveyor and robot to be able to sort this stuff quickly and efficiently. It will make sure it ends up where we can process it" by Brian Krieger
"It's not black and white on the green front." by Carl White
"Just think. If I recycle all of this, I may save a whale or an ocean or just maybe the universe! Or just my job." by Chuck Lewis
"Well it sounded easy enough, and I did feel better about myself by insisting other people do it too. Hmmmmm Now what?" by Ken Robertson
"Sorting is good but this receptacle is still too full to reflect responsible reuse." by John Ewanish
"Wow! Look at all of these empty beer and whip cream cans! Who says the Accounting Department doesn’t know how to party!" by Chuck Lewis
"Jerry we have a problem" by ben berwick