Plastic Is Your Frenemy

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WRI's Kevin Moss argues plastics were once seen as nature's friend, but attitudes have changed and business models must change too

Before plastics became nature's enemy, they were meant to be nature's friend. Created in 1869 as a substitute for the ivory in billiard balls, the first primitive synthetic plastic was hailed as the...

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