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Plastic Recycling Doesn’t Work and Will Never Work

The Atlantic · Judith Enck · last updated

Americans support recycling. We do too. But although some materials can be effectively recycled and safely made from recycled content, plastics cannot. Plastic recycling does not work and will never work.

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