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The recycling barge to nowhere

By Madeline Fry Schultz
Published May 31, 2019 4:00am ET
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The recycling barge to nowhere
Barges loaded up with plastic from Asia regularly arrive in U.S. ports, but this one is different. The plastic stuff Malaysia is sending here isn’t cheap junk Americans will buy. It’s actual trash Americans tried to send to Malaysia. This week, Malaysia announced it’s returning literally tons of nonrecyclable plastic to the U.S., after Environment […]

Barges loaded up with plastic from Asia regularly arrive in U.S. ports, but this one is different.

The plastic stuff Malaysia is sending here isn’t cheap junk Americans will buy. It’s actual trash Americans tried to send to Malaysia.

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