Op-ed: Putting communities at the heart of plastic pollution initiatives

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By Timnit Kefela, Phd, MscFeb 5, 2025, 5:00 am524 ptsHot
It was planting day. In prior weeks, our students voted on the vegetables they wanted to grow and began preparing for that day. We left the seeds to germinate in old egg cartons filled with soil and created colorful popsicle stick labels as we waited for the seedlings to grow enough to take root in their new…

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