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Posted inEnvironment

California’s Waste Crisis: Thanks to Tight Markets and Public Confusion, the State’s Recycling Plants Are Struggling

It was more than a year after the seabird died and washed up on a California beach before Jessie Beck prepared to reveal its last meals. Holding its stomach over a laboratory sink, Beck snipped open the slick tissue. With a series of plinks, the stomach contents slumped out onto the metal sieve below. Inside […]

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