If you were thinking plastic recycling was as straightforward as popping your empty bottles in the right container, John Oliver has some bad news for you.
For the latest episode of Last Week Tonight, the host takes a deep dive into the world of plastics, from skyrocketing production to the terrifyingly-large portion of plastic that isn't actually recycled, some of which ends up in our oceans and even in our stomachs by way of our food and drinking water.
Oliver then turns his attention to the corporations who have done their best to place the onus on the consumer to fix this problem via questionable advertising campaigns, despite admitting behind closed doors that the recycling of plastic on a large scale might not even be economically viable. Read more...
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