Commentary: Berkeley declares war on throwaway culture
by Annie Leonard and Martin Bourque, Los Angeles Times
Jan 30, 2019
2 minutes
Any American school kid can recite the common wisdom for tackling our massive plastic trash problem: reduce, reuse, recycle.
But it's not that simple.
Addressing plastic pollution has to focus far more on reducing and reusing. It is simply not a problem we can recycle our way out of.
People assume that when they toss plastic packaging into a bin, it will get collected,
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