Producers must step up to reduce flood of plastic February 22, 2025
Jonathan Witte, MD, Washington PSR Climate and Health Task Force | Everett Herald
In 2021, Washington generated more than 800,000 tons of plastic waste, of which only 9.3 percent was recycled. Most of the rest was either buried in a landfill, incinerated, or ended up somewhere else in the environment. The problem is, plastic sticks around in the environment for an extremely long time; essentially forever. Not only that, plastics can be toxic and hazardous to our health.
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