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Only 6% of recycled plastic is transformed into new items. That number has been dropping for 30 years. Learn why plastic recycling isn't the empowering magic bullet we think it is. , , + in .
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1⃣ Good, 13-minute, non-technical episode of NPR's Short Wave podcast (hosted by ) on "The Myth of Plastic Recycling". As guest explains, plastic recycling isn't working: only 5-6% of waste plastic is made into new items.
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If recycling is the answer, you’re asking the wrong question.
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#BREAKING: California's two largest cities, Los Angeles and San Diego, have banned expanded polystyrene, the plastic foam that is often used to produce single-use cups, plates, & other foodware.
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Journalism twitter is rough today. Serious cuts at NPR... threat of walkout at NYT... and people announcing their own layoffs at CNN and Gannett.
Be good to yourselves and each other, people.
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This California city asked where its recycling went. The answer wasn’t pretty. - NBC News
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Another flagship plastic recycling firm goes down in flames. This one spent millions on machines that promised to “chemically recycle” plastic trash in Scotland.
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Is that what happened? cuz I thought we bided our time, worked our asses off, assumed positions of actual power and changed the world FOR YOU. You’re welcome.
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It’s not that “no one wants to work” it’s that millennials and zoomers refuse to be both underpaid AND work in a toxic environment. Gen x can’t grasp this because they let themselves be walked over for the last 30+ years as a worker
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CA Attorney General sent letters to 7 #plastic manufacturers today requiring them to prove their "recyclable" plastic bags aren't ending up in the landfill. "We don't believe these bags are being recycled." Says enforcement actions possible.
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Greenpeace report finds most plastic goes to landfills as production ramps up : NPR
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DOE: Lax oversight pushed taxpayer-funded battery tech to China - E&E News
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Russian reservists called up vs U.S.' 82nd Airborne sent to Europe bc of Ukraine. Between the trouser belts and the cloth caps, something's not quite right.
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Kids are under so much pressure today. When we #genXers were growing up, everyone just assumed we would be a bunch of f**k ups. When we grew up, got jobs and paid taxes, people thought it was like a shocking win.
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Oscar Carrión, luego de meses sin luz tras el paso de María, acumuló $2,500 entre vecinos del barrio en Canóvanas, compraron un camión y reestablecieron el servicio a la gente en su comunidad. Minuto 51 de este doc. LUMA no puede frenar la autogestión.
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Declaran guerra los alcaldes.
”Te voy a envíar el pin location mío para que vengas y me arrestes”, sostuvo el alcalde de Aguadilla ante la insensibilidad de LUMA Energy…
#JPD #Fiona
Vía José Cruz
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How the U.S. gave away a breakthrough battery technology to China : NPR
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We found many similarities to solar and other tech where the U.S. had originally surged ahead: drones, telecom equipment. The U.S. used to make 30 percent of all solar panels. Now it makes less than 1 percent. t.co/py8BpLH8rf
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The U.S. government spent millions on a breakthrough battery discovery - then gave the recipe to China
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Coming up today on our investigation into a breakthrough battery and how the U.S. lost the Next Big Thing to China - Again. Stay tuned!
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Always troubled when writers tell the public "plastic recycling works" when they are funded by the biggest makers, users and lobbyists of plastic like the . Go work for an actual enviro group and then tell me plastic recycling is working.
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The federal magistrate in the 9/11 families case against Saudi Arabia has sided again with the Saudis that they get to keep all the information in the case secret. Even docs the U.K. has already released. It's been 21 years. Why is ANY of this information still secret?
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"The problem with recycling plastic lies not with the concept or process but with the material itself," write and .
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Great reporting about a sickening practice—taking Social Security benefits intended for kids in foster care. Another important story from the relentless
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“The problem was never the public and that's what these documents show. This was set up by the oil industries in many ways to blame the public for a problem that they couldn't fix,” says on the investigation into oil companies over plastic recycling claims.
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The California AG is launching an investigation of the plastics industry. His office credits some really incredible reporting from NPR that uncovered a decades-long campaign to deceive all of us about the viability of recycling.
's story: npr.org/2020/09/11/912
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#BREAKING: We’re launching an investigation into the plastics industry for its role in causing the global #plasticpollution crisis and deceiving the public.
Plastic pollution is seeping into our water, poisoning our environment and blighting our landscapes.
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California Investigating Oil Companies For Alleged Plastic Recycling Deception : NPR
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Surprised would tell kids "The good people are dedicating themselves to addressing global plastic waste" - remember when made these same promises 32 YEARS ago? 17 years ago? Pls tell me The Science Guy didn't get paid to say that.
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After put out a misleading plastic recycling video on Earth Day, countered it with a more accurate one. The vast majority of plastic bottles are not - and have never been - recycled. youtu.be/rWK8G2E3Aa4 via
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So happy our investigation into the growing disparities in health care is a finalist for the the Peabody award. We had a great team
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Researchers link silica to severe black lung disease, supporting NPR findings in 2018 by
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Add to the list. Newsroom editors called it "not a real story." The "Hunter Biden laptop" investigation may end up being a tax case, a hill of beans, or something else. But what it's always been is a story.
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Twitter founder Jack Dorsey apologized and admitted it was wrong for Twitter to have censored any mention of the story.
The WPost this week called for a media "reckoning" over what they did.
Beyond those 2, they all let their lie stand to this day.
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#OnAssignmentPodcast is back! Season 15 launches today, featuring investigative correspondent and THREE TIME duPont winner . Listen to her trashtalking - her #duPont2022 award-winning story, Waste Land. bit.ly/OnAssignWasteL
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Amid the news today...an important report came out. Prominent physicians drew a line in the sand and called the quasi diagnosis "Excited Delirium" made up pseudo-science. It's been used for decades to cover up taser and in custody police deaths.
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This has to be one of China's strangest press releases to hit my inbox. Half of TODAY's conversation between Putin and Xi Jinping was apparently about medaling at the Olympics. You know who else medaled at the Olympics? #Ukraine.
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Collecting her third duPont silver baton, investigative correspondent
says, “This was a story that has stayed with all of us since we started reporting it … to win a duPont for it is something we never imagined.” #duPont2022
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Tonight we took home the duPont-Columbia award for the episode on recycling plastic. Thanks again to for bringing us a winner!
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The duPont-Columbia Awards recognize Waste Land, @planetmoney and @frontlinepbs's impactful exposé on the plastics recycling industry, as a #duPont2022 Finalist. Here, @NPR's correspondent @LauraSullivaNPR, reveals the 'money shot'...of her audio reporting. "That's magic."
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Congratulations #duPont2022 winner "Waste Land"! This & collaboration explains how big oil misled the public into believing plastic would be recycled. investigative correspondent accepted the award.
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