US Joe Biden–Kamala Harris administration announces $45 million to reduce electric vehicle battery recycling costs
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Carbon myopia is concealing a deeper problem: our insatiable appetite for materials
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Comprehensive bipartisan plastics recycling bill tackles plastics pollution in US
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Houston's plastic waste, waiting more than a year for "advanced" recycling, piles up at a business failed three times by fire marshal
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Eleven on trial in Sweden's largest environmental crime case – Bella Nilsson's company Think Pink accused of dumping at least 200,000 tonnes of waste
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Are Swedish dishcloths more environment-friendly than paper towels? We investigate.
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Reduce, reuse, redirect outrage: How plastic makers used recycling as a fig leaf
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This is why we don’t recycle wind turbine blades
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Lessons from Finland's attempt to transition to a circular economy
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Plant-based spread maker tries move into paper-based tubs
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Site Zero recycling plant in the city of Motala should double the amount of plastic packaging being recycled in Sweden
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The remote Danish island of Bornholm has pledged to eliminate trash by 2032. How will it get there?
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'License to hide': Western plastic waste dumped in Myanmar
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Paper cups are just as toxic as plastic cups
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Decades of public messages about recycling in the US have crowded out discussion and implementation of more sustainable ways to manage waste
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Danish environmental campaigner Merijn Tinga has windsurfed up the Thames to return plastic bottles from the UK which he found in Sweden
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Australian governments impose recycling rules after the packaging industry fails on waste
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The little-known unintended consequence of recycling plastics
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You’re probably recycling wrong. This quiz will help you sort it out.
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Sacramento recycle center shutters, blames California agency for ‘irate’ customers
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How San Francisco’s recycled water program stumbled into performative environmentalism
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Many in India make a living off garbage, from ragpickers to entrepreneurs. Join us as we look at how they turn trash into shoes, tiles, teddy bears, and more | World Wide Waste
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How people live off a garbage mountain that keeps catching on fire | World Wide Waste
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How sand made from crushed glass rebuilds Louisiana’s shrinking coast | World Wide Waste
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Scientists discover a new method to break down plastics in less time
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A plastic bag’s 2,000-mile journey shows the messy truth about recycling
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How glass recycling works
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The metres-high mountain of mannequins in the British Midlands
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How bad is plastic?
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Big Oil’s solution for plastic waste littered with failure
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No, you can’t recycle a bowling ball (but people sure keep trying)
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Amazon destroys millions of items of brand new, unsold stock each year
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End of wind power waste? Vestas unveils blade recycling technology.
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Is recycling worth it anymore? The truth is complicated.
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The uneasy afterlife of our dazzling trash: Where do CDs go to die?
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Recycling was a marketing tool used to sell more plastic
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How Big Oil misled the public into believing plastic would be recycled
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The millions being made from cardboard theft
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While not a solution, knowing how to recycle and compost can help the environment
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The more Patagonia rejects consumerism, the more the brand sells
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Even garbage is under threat from the coronavirus' impact on the economy
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South Korea is composting its way to sustainability with automated bins, rooftop farms, and underground mushroom-growing
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Don't buy new, fix the old: The repair business is booming
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Planet plastic - How big oil and big soda kept a global environmental calamity a secret for decades
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Struggling to keep up, Finland exports plastic waste – a quarter of all plastic waste will be sent to facilities in Sweden or Germany for sorting and repurposing
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Wind turbine blades can’t be recycled, so they’re piling up in landfills - Companies are searching for ways to deal with the tens of thousands of blades that have reached the end of their lives
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A journalist in Japan looks at how much single-use plastic he accumulates in a week, then attempts to spend a week without using any
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Planet Money - Episode 926: So, should we recycle?
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Sweden will become the first market where all Coca-Cola products are sold in fully recycled plastic bottles
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China is forcing the world to rethink recycling
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