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​Plastics: A Recycler’s Guide
I try to reduce my plastic packaging consumption by bringing net bags to hold my produce and tote bags to carry groceries home. When stuff I need, like dish soap and peanut butter, only comes encased in plastic, I recycle what I can. What’s OK? What’s not? Each facility has slightly different regulations, but here are some general guidelines.

Not Recyclable:
· Plastic wrap, bags, and wrappers have a tendency to wind around machinery at the recycling center with unfortunate results.  
· Small plastics, three inches or less, such as bag clips and pill packaging, get caught in the gears of the recycling machines.
· Flexible packaging, such as a potato chip bag, is hard to process and has no market.
· Deodorant is packaged in multiple kinds of plastic that can’t be separated.
· Polystyrene foam requires a special machine, which most places don’t have.
· Plastics marked 5 or higher are mixed and usually can’t be recycled.

Recyclable:
· Plastic bottles and jars are generally fine.

Avoid the temptation to “wishcycle,” that is, throw in questionable stuff hoping it will be accepted. It won’t. And it may end up contaminating a bundle so it has to be sent to the landfill.
—Karen McCann
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Check your mailbox!
September 19 is the deadline for states to send out overseas ballots. Most will send ballots electronically, so check your email, and look in your spam folder! Fill out your ballot and return it right away...by email, fax, or mail (Check your state's requirements HERE or HERE).
Be sure to follow instructions carefully for returning your ballot, so that it isn't disqualified.
If you haven't registered yet, there's still time: Register to vote and request your ballot (or get more information!) at votefromabroad.org. And if you know anyone who hasn't registered or has questions about the process, please forward this newsletter to them!
—Kathy Sherretts
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Scratch That:
Slate: The Wisconsin Supreme Court Has Already Begun to Sabotage Absentee Voting by Mark Joseph Stern
Wisconsin's Supreme Court halted the mailing of absentee ballots due to a Green Party challenge, and may force the state to print new ballots.

Pay Up:
CNN: Florida can bar ex-felons from voting if they owe court payments, appeals court rules by Dan Berman, Caroline Kelly and Fredreka Schouten
Friday's ruling overturns a decision from US District Judge Robert Hinkle, who called the state's rule an "unconstitutional pay-to-vote system".
Drawing on Experience:
Vulture: How Cartoonist Keith Knight’s Life and Work Evolved Into Hulu’s Woke by Alex Dueben
Haven’t seen the show, but I´ve been a fan of the cartoons for years! See the trailer.

Stamped Out:
Slate: This Is Still Happening: Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General by Jeremy Stahl
A roundup of Trump administration malfeasance, Part 11.

Just for Fun: Still not working...
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