"If the public thinks that recycling is working, then they are not going to be as concerned about the environment," Larry Thomas, former president of the Society of the Plastics Industry, known today as the Plastics Industry Association and one of the industry's most powerful trade groups in Washington, D.C., told NPR. Yet the industry spent millions telling people to recycle, because, as one former top industry insider told NPR, selling recycling sold plastic, even if it wasn't true. "There is serious doubt that can ever be made viable on an economic basis," one industry insider wrote in a 1974 speech. The industry's awareness that recycling wouldn't keep plastic out of landfills and the environment dates to the program's earliest days, we found. We found that the industry sold the public on an idea it knew wouldn't work - that the majority of plastic could be, and would be, recycled - all while making billions of dollars selling the world new plastic. NPR and PBS Frontline spent months digging into internal industry documents and interviewing top former officials. This story is part of a joint investigation with the PBS series Frontline that includes the documentary Plastic Wars, which aired March 31 on PBS. We take the time to clean it, take the labels off, separate it and put it here. "I remember the first meeting where I actually told a city council that it was costing more to recycle than it was to dispose of the same material as garbage," she says, "and it was like heresy had been spoken in the room: You're lying. She sends the soda bottles to the state.īut when Leebrick tried to tell people the truth about burying all the other plastic, she says people didn't want to hear it. She could find only someone who wanted white milk jugs. Rogue, like most recycling companies, had been sending plastic trash to China, but when China shut its doors two years ago, Leebrick scoured the U.S. "To me that felt like it was a betrayal of the public trust," she said. None of this plastic will be turned into new plastic things. Laura Leebrick, a manager at Rogue Disposal & Recycling in southern Oregon, is standing on the end of its landfill watching an avalanche of plastic trash pour out of a semitrailer: containers, bags, packaging, strawberry containers, yogurt cups. Note: An audio version of this story aired on NPR's Planet Money. In our videos for kids you will see monster truck trips to the car wash and many mo.Landfill workers bury all plastic except soda bottles and milk jugs at Rogue Disposal & Recycling in southern Oregon. Our favorite truck videos for children kids toddlers preschoolers kindergarteners babies playlist featuring monster fire trucks wheel loaders dump trucks street sweepers garbage trucks monster trucks firetrucks more. Sing along as you watch one of the coolest monster trucks ever do tricks and stunts at the monster truck rally. We have a nursery rhyme song video or game for every occasion here at kids channel. Truck excavator dump truck for kids videos car toys bi bi kids. With tags truck trucks car excavator dump truck trucks for children trucks for kids. Watch dump trucks hard at work with excavators and backhoes too dumping loading carrying heavy cargo and then dumping again. Garbage truck car garage car garage kids toddlers video for children duration. Hey lovely kids enjoy with the latest construction video of red loader truck and many more from jugnu kids nursery rhymes and kids songs with the help of surprise eggs. In this preschool color learning video for kids let s match each disney cars toy truck to matching trailer. Watch this famous 4x4 do donuts wheelies and. With home to many cartoon 2d and 3d characters we are a preschooler s best friend. Kids monster trucks is the channel totally dedicated to game play videos.ĭisney cars toy trucks color learning video for kids. Kids can you tell me what s inside these beautiful surprise eggs. Today we ll learn how to read them oh yeah.
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