May 05

4 Charts Exposing America’s Colossal Failure on Plastics Recycling

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Plastic recycling isn’t working–and it’s worse than we thought. A new report by environmental nonprofit The Last Beach Cleanup and research group Beyond Plastics found that plastics recycling in the U.S. dropped to between 5% and 6% in 2021. That’s down from the last official numbers that the EPA published in 2020 showing that just…

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