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The Conversation reports on single-stream recycling, emphasizing its convenience but noting significant contamination issues ...

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Talks aimed at a global treaty to cut plastic pollution fizzled in Geneva this week, with no agreement to meaningfully reduce the harms to human health and the environment that come with the millions ...