The Myth of Plastic Recycling

Georg Rockall-Schmidt
Georg Rockall-Schmidt
83.3 هزار بار بازدید - 2 ماه پیش - You consume (as in eat),
You consume (as in eat), on average, a credit card's worth of plastic every week. We all do, because plastic is everywhere. It's in our food, our water, the air that we breathe, it's in the top soil, it's in our pets, it's in our blood. The idea that plastic can be meaningfully recycled is a lie, and the industry has known it's a lie for 50 years. Where does it go? To landfills, waterways, and incinerators, before making its way back into our bodies in the form of microplastics.

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