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Best Buy or Target in San Francisco to buy headphones or a charger and you'll still end up with <br /> plastic packaging to throw away. Amazon has tried to reduce waste by sending products in white <br /> and blue plastic envelopes, but when I visited the Recology plant, they littered the floor because <br /> they're very hard to recycle. Even at Recology, an employee-owned company that benefits when <br /> people recycle well,the hurdles to getting rid of plastics was evident. Reed chided me for eating <br /> my daily Chobani yogurt out of small 5ounce containers,rather than out of big 32-ounce tubs, <br /> but I saw a 5-ounce Yoplait container in a trash can of the control room of the Recology plant. <br /> While there, Reed handed me a pair of small orange ear plugs meant to protect my ears from the <br /> noise of the plant. They were wrapped in a type of flimsy plastic that is nearly impossible to <br /> recycle. When I left the plant, I kept the earplugs and the plastic in my bag, not sure what to do <br /> with them. Eventually, I threw them in the trash <br />