A trash can overflows as people sit outside of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Vintage Bakelite and other plastic objects at a museum in England. As part of the treaty talks, some countries want to cap production of new plastic, which is made from oil and gas. However, those efforts arethat are determined to keep plastic demand growing. State and local governments in the U.S.
Garbage is dumped at the Fresh Kills Landfill in Staten Island, New York, in 1989. But getting people to throw away items after a single use took a lot of work. “Even if you’ve convinced people that maybe the disposability of plastics isn’t such a bad thing, people are still seeing this waste out in public,” says Bart Elmore, a professor of environmental history at Ohio State University.
In 1976 — two years before big soft-drink makers introduced plastic soda bottles — a study by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration concluded that “substantial recycling of plastics is unlikely in the near future.” That echoes the agency’s“To make a gamble like that, where public agencies and public documents are saying this at the time, I think raises real questions about culpability, accountability in an era when I think a lot of people are asking for that,” Elmore says.globally.
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