How Women Are Leading the Charge to Recycle Whole Houses

How Women Are Leading the Charge to Recycle Whole Houses
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/how-women-are-leading-charge-r...

From lobbying for changes to city laws to running reuse centers for building supplies, women are dominating the deconstruction industry

"When Ruthie Mundell was in high school, everyone laughed at her for digging through the trash. She’d count paper, cans and cardboard, keeping careful numbers on trash volume and recycling rates. Her 'trash audit' led to a local recycling revolution in Leonardtown, Maryland, amounting to more bins and higher student recycling rates.

"Now, 25 years later, her recycling mission is bigger in scope and scale.

"'We're so proud of ourselves for recycling soda cans and office paper. But we're not thinking about the larger scale stuff',' she says.

"Mundell, marketing and outreach director at Community Forklift, is one of many women around the country leading the reuse and recycling charge. Instead of focusing on trendy plastic straw bans, they are recycling whole houses."

https://communityforklift.org/