Answer: RECYCLE CONTENT
Throughout the Workshop and Ocean there are 14 puzzles that have content "Recommended For You" that seems extraneous to the puzzle. Each of these has a clickbait headline and following the link gives a list of items pertanent to that headline. There are two different news sources, BuzzDeep and the Puffington Post. Within each news source, the numbers in the headlines are unique and the answers to the puzzles with linked content also have unique lengths. The number in the headline of a given puzzle is not the length of the answer for that puzzle, but of a different puzzle from that news source. This allows each set of puzzles to form a ring.
For example, the puzzle Erraticism has the clickbait headline "7 Slang Terms for Children We are Totally Over" which matches to the 7-letter answer for the Coins in the chest, DRESDEN. The coins' clickbait headline is "4 Names for Pizza Places That are Full of Win", witch matches to the 4-letter answer TACO to the puzzle Munchies, and so on.
In each article for each news source there is one list item that could also be a member of the empty list on the Captain Planet puzzle page. The completed lists are below, in order by the ring order described above. For each news source one of the headlines has "first" in it, denoting where to start writing.
Each puzzle answer is associated with the with one clickbait list, as described above. Because the number of items in the list matches the length of the answer, each list item can be associated with a particular letter from the correstponding puzzle answers (e.g., each letter from TACO can be matched with a pizza place). If you take the letters for the clickbait list items that get reused on Captain Planet's new lists (e.g., the C in TACO that corresponds with Bobby's World) and read them in order, you get the solution to Captain Planet's problem: RECYCLE CONTENT
Puzzle Title | Answer | Index | Letter | Clickbait Headline (links to next puzzle) |
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Erraticism | IFEELBADFORYOU | 11 | R | 7 Slang Terms for Children We are Totally Over |
Coins | DRESDEN | 6 | E | 4 Names for Pizza Places That are Full of Win |
Munchies | TACO | 3 | C | 5 Æ Dipthong Words That Make Us Drool |
Rid Fill | DYLAN | 2 | Y | 12 Pairs of Words That Start With the Same Letter That Are So Us |
Polyglot | MICHELANGELO | 3 | C | 10 Trios Who Were Epically Underrated |
Back and Forth | COLOREDICE | 3 | L | 6 Talk Shows That Will Make You Question Your Very Existence |
Beth | PRINCE | 6 | E | 14 Monosyllabic Male First Names That Are So Overrated |
Puzzle Title | Answer | Index | Letter | Clickbait Headline (links to next puzzle) |
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Word Fork | MICE | 3 | C | 7 Olympians Who We Can't Get Enough Of |
Nina | OSMOSIS | 4 | O | 11 Members of Congress Who Made Us Thirsty |
Wordsearches Are a Piece of Cake | STEWLUNCHES | 7 | N | 8 Scientific Discoveries That Will Bring a Tear to Your Eye |
Nautilus's Duplicated Quest | SEATOSKY | 4 | T | 9 Furniture Styles That Prove We've Gone Too Far |
Stay Out of the Trench | KERFUFFLE | 2 | E | 16 Green Things Every Twenty-something Totally Needs |
Paper Jigsaw | THESPIRITSWITHIN | 16 | N | 5 Arnold Schwarzenegger Movies You've Completely Forgotten About |
Siamese Quintuplets | ELITE | 4 | T | 4 Firsts That Will Prove Exactly Why Smiles Exist |