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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Planet plastic - How big oil and big soda kept a global environmental calamity a secret for decades
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Don't buy new, fix the old: The repair business is booming
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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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The mattress landfill crisis: How the race to bring us better beds led to a recycling nightmare
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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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Planet Money - Episode 926: So, should we recycle?
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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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Sweden will become the first market where all Coca-Cola products are sold in fully recycled plastic bottles
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Plastic waste from America, collected for recycling, is shipped to Indonesia. Some is burned as fuel by tofu makers, producing deadly chemicals and contaminating food.
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China is forcing the world to rethink recycling
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We asked 3 companies to recycle Canadian plastic and secretly tracked it. Only 1 company recycled the material
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New infrared-based technology promises to give textiles recycling a giant leap forward by replacing manual sorting with an automated method in Finland
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A new Swedish bicycle is made from 300 recycled Nespresso pods
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The Big Business of Scavenging in Postindustrial America
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Plastics or people? At least one of them has to change to clean up our mess
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How the plastics industry is fighting to keep polluting the world
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This house was built using 600,000 recycled plastic bottles
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Experts scoff but Joost Bakker believes he can make oil from dirty plastic
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The world's first automatic textile recycling facility will be built in Malmö
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How the Swedish town of Eskilstuna became the world capital of recycling
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Asian countries take a stand against the rich world’s plastic waste
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Malaysia returning unwanted Canadian plastic
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The new recycling is called 'recommerce’
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Carefully, Japan reconsiders the trash can
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Timor-Leste aims to become world's first plastics-neutral country
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