The extraordinary story of the woman who made plastics recycling
possible. Milly Zantow wanted to solve the problem of her town’s
full landfill and ended up creating a global recycling standard —
the system of numbers you see inside the little triangle on
plastics. This is the inspiring story of how she mobilized her
community, creating sweeping change to help the environment. On a
trip to Japan in 1978, Milly noticed that people were putting
little bundles out on the street each morning. They were recycling
— something that hadn’t taken hold in North America. When she
returned to Sauk City, Wisconsin, she discovered that her town’s
landfill was nearing capacity, and that plastic made up a large
part of the garbage. No one was recycling plastics. Milly decided
to figure out how. She discovered that there are more than seven
kinds of plastic, and they can’t be combined for recycling, so
she learned how to use various tests to identify them. Then she
found a company willing to use recycled plastic, but the plastic
would have to be ground up first. Milly and her friend bought a
huge industrial grinder and established E-Z Recycling. They worked
with local school children and their community, and they helped
other communities start their own recycling programs. But Milly
knew that the large-scale recycling of plastics would never work
unless people could easily identify the seven types. She came up
with the idea of placing an identifying number in the little
recycling triangle, which has become the international standard.
Milly's story is a glimpse into the early days of the recycling
movement and shows how, thanks to her determination, hard work and
community-building, huge changes took place, spreading rapidly
across North America. Correlates to the Common Core State Standards
in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.3.3 Describe the
relationship between a series of historical events, scientific
ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text,
using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.4.7 Interpret information presented visually,
orally, or quantitatively (e.g., in charts, graphs, diagrams, time
lines, animations, or interactive elements on Web pages) and
explain how the information contributes to an understanding of the
text in which it appears.
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