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Plastic is a brilliant material. But our relationship with it is trash
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September 13, 202118 min read, 3644 words

Plastic is a brilliant material. But our relationship with it is trashPlastic is a brilliant material. But our relationship with it is trash

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Published: September 13, 2021  |  18 min read, 3644 words
Want to challenge yourself? Try not touching anything made of plastic for a whole day. There’s a good chance you slept on a mattress with plastic in it last night. You were woken up by the alarm clock on your smartphone, about half of which is made of plastic. You pulled the c...
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Sep 13
Long form piece on the history of commercial plastic and why we came to consider it so disposable. Excellent research, but the author's proposed grassroots solution to plastic pollution isn't quite as well explained as the rest of the history.
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