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The United States, the world’s largest plastic polluter, recycles a mere 5% of its household plastic waste.
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they did an episode of adam ruins everything on it. tldr: corporations lobbied the american government to remove recycling requirements that moved the onus from them to the american public and the american public took it, like it always does.