#165 – Hao read Sharon Lerner's fantastic 2019 expose about the plastic industry's national push to make single-use plastic readily available to consumers, through municipal legislation and false-flag recycling PSAs, and he decided to himself: This would make a fantastic Downers episode. This hour, we talk about ways we think about plastic and they reconcile with the reality. From the commercial viability of recycling to the little number that gets stamped on the bottom of bottles, very little about plastic is what it seems on the surface. Let's. Fix. Plastic. By reducing on dependency on it, or by making content about it!!

Plugs this week:

• South Korea's TV drama ITAEWON CLASS (Jack)
• Brian Michael Firkus' drag personal TRIXIE MATTEL (Kate)
• Music (Hao)

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