U.S. Plastic Recycling Rates Are Even Worse Than We Thought
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English - May 28, 2022 14:29 - 4 minutes - 8.78 MB - ★★★★ - 63 ratingsDaily News News Society & Culture spokenlayer Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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It’s well established that the state of U.S. plastics recycling is dismal. But plastic waste experts, who have long cautioned that the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) purported recycling rate was overestimated, now say that the country is poised for a reckoning.