Your Questions About Plastic Waste, Answered

In January, we published a special report called "A New Weapon In The War Against Plastic Waste." It profiled Froilan Grate, a Filipino environmental activist, and his efforts to fight the non-recyclable plastic waste that is clogging miles and miles of coastline in the Philippines.

Grate argues that the corporations that produce the waste should be responsible for cleaning it up. And one way he`s getting the brands` attention is by naming and shaming the companies....

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Ken Notes: This is a great article and identifies many of the problems we face. One major issue is that China is no longer taking our waste plastic which is a huge issue. We may need to develop plants to process the recycled plastic into pellets and ship that to China (this is happening with paper now) but these plants produce co2 and other pollutants and need to run on very thin margins.