The nation’s first plastic bag ban in Suffolk County, NY set off panic in the plastics industry. How did industry create the myth of recycling and squash potential bag bans?
We speak to Assemblyman Steve Englebright, who sponsored the bag ban in 1988, about the decades long fight to ban plastic bags in Suffolk County and the tactics used by the plastic industry to thwart these bans. Plus, Kara Napolitano from SIMS Municipal Recycling Facility in Brooklyn offers us a new way to think about plastics recycling.
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Mycelium for the Masses
Nature's Detox
The Citizen Scientist
Into the Woods
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Trace Material Live: The Plastics Inferno
The Social History of Plastics
Our Plastic Future
Dance Against the Incinerator
Out of the Factory
The House of Documents
Mi Sueño Tupperware
The Fourth Kingdom
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Looking Back at Hemp
A New Dawn in New Castle
Talking Shop with Alex Sparrow
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