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![Landfill workers bury all plastic except soda bottles and milk jugs at Rogue Disposal & Recycling in southern Oregon.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/img_6898-5db844337d4e057e4c00e907d926304ae06cf362-e1599830938717-900x422.jpg)
How Big Oil Misled The Public Into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled
By: Laura Sullivan | NPR
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An NPR and PBS Frontline investigation reveals how the oil and gas industry used the promise of recycling to sell more plastic, even when they knew it would never work on a large scale.
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Trump Seizes On Soggy Paper Straws As Campaign Issue: ‘Make Straws Great Again’
By: Jessica Taylor | NPR
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The president’s reelection campaign is selling reusable and recycled straws in its 2020 online store, because, it says, “Liberal paper straws don’t work.”
![Anne Schauer-Gimenez (from left) Allison Pieja and Molly Morse of Mango Materials stand next to the biopolymer fermenter at a sewage treatment plant next to San Francisco Bay. The fermenter feeds bacteria the methane they need to produce a biological form of plastic.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/img_4362-best-copy-a35437925e0ddc84ef5fc4764a029dafef74a51a-e1560786747300-900x422.jpg)
Replacing Plastic: Can Bacteria Help Us Break The Habit?
By: Christopher Joyce | NPR
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Entrepreneurs are eager to find substitutes for plastic that naturally degrade. One option is a “natural” plastic made by microbes and then eaten by them. But the process is still in the early days.
![The deep ocean is filled with sea creatures like giant larvaceans. They're actually the size of tadpoles, but they're surrounded by a yard-wide bubble of mucus that collects food — and plastic. "We found small plastic pieces in every single larvacean that we examined from different depths across the water column," says researcher Anela Choy.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/larvacean-bf6afb160bae8e04f559a678500d12ef04ceec56-e1559829595583-900x422.jpg)
Microplastics Have Invaded The Deep Ocean — And The Food Chain
By: Christopher Joyce | NPR
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Giant gyres of plastic in the ocean grab headlines, but it’s the tiny bits of plastic that scare scientists. And they’ve made their way everywhere, a new study finds – including our seafood.
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As Ohio Valley Ponders Plastics Growth, Report Warns Of Threat to Climate
By: Brittany Patterson | Ohio Valley ReSource
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As a new plastics industry emerges in the Ohio Valley, a report by environmental groups warns that the expansion of plastics threatens the world’s ability to keep climate change at… Read More