In the 1967 film The Graduate, a businessman offers career advice to a young Dustin Hoffman with a single word: “Plastics.”
At the time, plastics were the future. Since then, as production has exploded worldwide, scientists have found plastic pollution everywhere from Arctic ecosystems to human breast milk.
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With global production projected to triple in the next 25 years, California is attempting something no state has done before: requiring producers to dramatically reduce plastic packaging and take responsibility for the waste they create.
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