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The Complete Failure of Recycling

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On February 24, 2024
Here's another piece on one of my personal hobbyhorses--the complete failure of recycling. Plastic producers have known for more than 30 years that recycling is not an economically or technically feasible plastic waste management solution. That has not stopped them from promoting it, according to...
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The Broken System of Recycling

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On November 1, 2022
I've long stated that recycling is a completely broken system. While a good idea in theory, in fact what happens is that our crap gets sent to China, thrown in the ocean, or whatever other way that is counter to what the system initially intended....
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Battery Recycling and Toxicity

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On November 23, 2015
One does not want to live around a lead battery recycling facility: In the wake of a growing lead pollution investigation in neighborhoods around the now shuttered Exide Technologies plant in Vernon, state toxics regulators have ordered a second lead battery recycler in nearby Industry...
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