Wednesday, December 31, 1969 · The Powering America Podcast
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Progressive Policy Institute

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Notable quotes

  • In the U.S., every year we create 35.7 million tons of plastic waste as a total. Of that, 75.6% ends up in landfills.
  • Advanced recycling allows these manufacturers to use basically recycled material to make new products that wouldn't be able to be made with mechanical recycling.
  • We can create the incentives for them to find ways to make profit in doing things like diverting this plastic from landfills.
  • If we could have plastics that do all these great things for us, and those plastics are recycled, that seems like the best of both worlds.
  • There's not a person listening to this podcast that doesn't— can't reach out with their hand right now and touch something plastic.
  • The amount of money that they can save is pretty astounding... it's possible on the outside $328 million annually that municipalities can save from just on these tipping fees.