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Trash Talk: Talking Plastics

May 01, 2024 - 00:00
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Trash Talk: Talking PlasticsTrash Talk: Talking Plastics

Let’s talk trash, plastic trash.What senior citizen doesn’t remember the one word of advice delivered to Dustin Hoffman at his graduation party given by his parents in the 1967 movie, The Graduate? “Plastics.”In almost six decades since then, the petrochemical industry has created an ingenious number of uses for it; so many that each year more than 8 million tons of plastic enter the ocean, according to the World Economic Forum.It estimates that in 2050, by weight, there will be more plastic than fish in the ocean.How do we prevent plastics from overwhelming the oceans? Not through recycling. “The majority ...

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