Americans diligently rinse containers, sort materials and dutifully place items in blue bins, confident their efforts help the environment. The reality proves far less encouraging. A substantial portion of materials sent to recycling facilities never gets recycled, instead ending up in landfills, incinerators or shipped overseas where it often becomes pollution. This gap between recycling’s […]

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