Americans produce 40 million tons of plastic waste each year. And it has to go somewhere. Carl Godfrey for BIAmerica has long had a plastic problem. It's an urgent question — what do we do with the 40 million tons of plastic waste we produce annually? One year of plastic waste is roughly enough to smother the entirety of Manhattan a meter deep, and it has to go somewhere.
America Generates 40 Million Tons Of Plastic Waste A Year — And It Can't Be Recycled
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