Re-run: Reduce, reuse… re-think?
POLITICO Energy
English - December 22, 2020 10:00 - 10 minutes - 9.69 MB - ★★★★ - 122 ratingsPolitics News Business News environment energy epa politico politico energy climate clean energy climate change house nuclear energy Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
This episode first aired on October 20th.
Governments have spent decades telling the public of the importance of
recycling and separating their waste. And a major ally in these efforts
has been a little triangle made of curving arrows that is supposed to
symbolize that a material can be recycled. But ultimately, recycling has
failed to make a sizable impact on the plastic pollution across the
world. POLITICO’s Eline Schaart explains why.
This episode first aired on October 20th.
Governments have spent decades telling the public of the importance of recycling and separating their waste. And a major ally in these efforts has been a little triangle made of curving arrows that is supposed to symbolize that a material can be recycled. But ultimately, recycling has failed to make a sizable impact on the plastic pollution across the world. POLITICO’s Eline Schaart explains why.