The recycling industry—and the world at large—has yet to fully reckon with a bombshell study that dropped last year.
This is a narrated version of Frank Celia's essay, published in Quillette on 17 June 2024: https://quillette.com/2024/06/17/recycling-plastic-is-a-dangerous-waste-of-time-microplastics-health/
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