On the recordDecember 14, 2022
If you go down to the cafeteria down below here, you will find that every piece of plastic that touches food is directed to be put into the waste stream, not into the recycling stream.
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congress.govJeff Merkley: “If you go down to the cafeteria down below here, you will find that every piece of plastic that touches food is directed…”
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Merkley highlights the mismanagement of food-contact plastics in recycling.
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