{"id":251739,"date":"2024-05-28T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/recycling-isnt-easy-the-coushatta-tribe-of-louisiana-is-doing-it-anyway\/"},"modified":"2024-05-28T12:12:36","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T12:12:36","slug":"recycling-isnt-easy-the-coushatta-tribe-of-louisiana-is-doing-it-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/recycling-isnt-easy-the-coushatta-tribe-of-louisiana-is-doing-it-anyway\/","title":{"rendered":"Recycling isn&#8217;t easy. The Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana is doing it anyway."},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\n      <iframe style=\"margin: 0 auto 20px; width: 100%; height: 100px; border: none; display: none\" data-project-id=\"Yual8er4aaQbafhcldNK\" allowfullscreen=\"false\" allowtransparency=\"\" allow=\"clipboard-read; clipboard-write\" frameborder=\"0\" id=\"ad-auris-iframe\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\">Allie \u201cNokko\u201d Johnson is a member of the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana, and they love teaching young tribal members about recycling. Johnson helps them make Christmas ornaments out of things that were going to be thrown away, or melts down small crayons to make bigger ones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\">\u201cIn its own way, recycling is a form of decolonization for tribal members,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cWe have to decolonize our present to make a better future for tomorrow.\u201c<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\">The Coushatta Reservation, in southern Louisiana, is small, made up of about 300 tribal members, and rural \u2014 the nearest Walmart is 40 minutes away. Recycling hasn\u2019t been popular in the area, but as the risks from climate change have grown, so has the tribe\u2019s interest. In 2014, the tribe took action and started gathering materials from tribal offices and departments, created recycling competitions for&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/grist.org\/indigenous\/recycling-isnt-easy-the-coushatta-tribe-of-louisiana-is-doing-it-anyway\/\"target=\"_blank\">Read full article originally published on grist.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allie \u201cNokko\u201d Johnson is a member of the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana, and they love teaching young tribal members about recycling. 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