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The Climate Impact of Our Insatiable Plastic Addiction

Bloomberg analyzed the growth rates of carbon dioxide emissions from plastic production and recycling globally and in the US, and asked experts about possible solutions to reduce these emissions.
The Climate Impact of Our Insatiable Plastic Addiction
Plastic is a miracle material, shaped and folded into our lives in everything from cigarette filters to medical tubing to car bumpers. It’s in the toys we give our children; it keeps our food fresh and it makes our clothes stretchy. And we can’t get enough of it. In the 1950s the world produced 2 million metric tons of the... ...

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