It's not an accident that there are actual mountains of plastic waste all over the world: it's advertising, baby. In part 1 of 2, meet the fourth horseman of the recycle-pocalypse: plastic. Plow through the dirty, ad-filled past -- and present -- of plastics recycling while Kat and Tiff provide a shoulder to cry on, or a bag to punch, on this entertaining green living podcast.

What To Watch

• 1990s Dupont Chemical ad for plastic recycling
• 1990s American Plastics Society ad, "plastics make it possible"
• 2020s ad that will make you want to rip your hair out after listening

Sources

• The Conversation on pandemic’s affect on plastic recycling
• Financial Times
• NPR & Frontline
• National Geographic
• PlasticsIndustry.org
• What plastic's made of (PlasticEurope.org)
• Alliance to End Plastic Waste (green hooey alert)
• The Guardian & Washington Post on enviro costs of recycling process
• DutchNews.nl and Plastic Soup Foundation on issues with Dutch recycling
• Ecology Center on plastic bags
• AP
• MyPlasticFreeLife.com

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