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Alex Jordan is an associate professor of plastics engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Stout. What Happens to the Plastic in Your Recycling Bin? Much of the U.S. uses single-stream recycling, ...

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Celia Deane-Drummond is a professor of theology and director of the Laudato Si' Research Institute at Campion Hall at the University of Oxford.