Plastic Industry Is Selling False Promise of New Recycling Tech. Don’t Buy It.

Instead of cutting back production, the industry uses mathematical acrobatics to make recycling look like it's working.

Last year, I became obsessed with a plastic cup. It was a small container that held diced fruit, the type thrown into lunch boxes. And it was the first product I’d seen born of what’s being touted as a cure for a crisis. Plastic doesn’t break down in nature. If you turned all of what’s been made into cling wrap, it would cover every inch of the globe. It’s piling up, leaching into our water and...

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