How the U.S. got addicted to plastics

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By David A. TaylorMar 4, 2019, 3:22 pm154 pts
This story was originally published by Undark and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In the closing months of World War II, Americans talked nonstop about how and when the war would end, and about how life was about to change. Germany would fall soon, people agreed on that. Opinions…

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