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April 18, 2023
Nothing Encapsulates the False Promise of Capitalism Like Plastic
Individual good intentions can only carry us so far when the global recycling system is stacked in favor of the oil industry.
Nanjala Nyabola
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December 7, 2021
My Parents Collect Cans for a Living
When people ask about my family now, I tell them not with embarrassment or shame but with pride.
Jessica Yauri
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April 23, 2020
Want to Slow the Climate Crisis? Don’t Use Single-Use Plastics.
The fossil fuel industry is dependent on our plastic dependency. We can starve it.
Annie Leonard
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July 27, 2015
Zero Waste Remains a Dirty Business
New York and Los Angeles are reforming their waste-management systems, but there’s still a ways to go to clean up the sanitation industry’s labor standards.
Michelle Chen
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June 24, 2015
Someone Has to Sort Your Recycling and It’s a Disgusting and Dangerous Job
When the green hype overpowers industrial safety, workers pay the price.
Michelle Chen
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April 22, 2014
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April 22, 2014
Climate Change Is the Tragedy of the Global Commons
It’s not like women’s rights or prison reform. There are too many people making money out of feeding our insatiable demand for more.
Katha Pollitt
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April 21, 2014
The Change Within: The Obstacles We Face Are Not Just External
The climate crisis has such bad timing, confronting it not only requires a new economy but a new way of thinking.
Naomi Klein
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November 29, 2007
The Dialectics of Revolution… Uh, Recycling
Looking askance at a practice widely supposed to be a pretty good idea.
Alexander Cockburn
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November 3, 2005
Toxic Recycling
Recycling electronics using US prison labor is a booming business, with a captive workforce paid pennies per hour for dangerous work that is largely unregulated. The human and environmental consequences of negligent handling and disposal of electronic waste are considerable.
Elizabeth Grossman