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The United States, the world’s largest plastic polluter, recycles a mere 5% of its household plastic waste. (www.visualcapitalist.com)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago

they did an episode of adam ruins everything on it. tldr: corporations lobbied the american government to remove recycling requirements that moved the onus from them to the american public and the american public took it, like it always does.