The Real Reason No One’s Recycling Styrofoam — and How One Company Is Changing That

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By Madeleine SomervilleJul 27, 2017, 7:00 am202 pts
You know, for all of my environmental awareness, I was always under the mistaken impression that the reason no one recycled Styrofoam was that it just couldn’t be recycled. I (somewhat naively, I now realize) assumed that we just lacked the technology or ability to do so, so I avoided using it altogether. I…

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