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Plastic Wars (full documentary) | FRONTLINE

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What it is

A FRONTLINE documentary on whether efforts to fix plastic pollution made it worse. It looks at the battle over plastics and recycling and how little plastic is actually recycled.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN recommends it as an eye-opener on how recycling was promoted by the plastics industry despite not working.

  • 1 people recommended it
  • 1 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2020, last 2023

What HN commenters said

  1. “If you want to have your eyes opened about just how little of the material you probably think you are recycling actually gets recycled”

    Shows how little plastic is actually recycled.

    kbos87, 2020-09 · Strong recommendation · in “Pringles tube tries to wake from 'recycling nightmare'”

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Topics: plastic pollution, recycling, plastics industry, frontline, environment

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