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Study Shows US and UK are Biggest Contributors to Plastic Waste

2020-11-02 13:06:00| Waste Age

New research indicates that the United States is the biggest contributor to plastic waste. More than half of the plastic waste slated for recycling in the U.S. was shipped aboard to countries that already had issues processing plastic waste. While

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