Recycling: Not your father's environmental issue
The U.S. recycling market is broken and the impacts of its failure are increased greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), floating plastic detritus and the exposure of underprivileged communities to harmful pollutants. We can revive the recycling industry and mitigate these problems, but we need a policy fix.
Check out my op-ed, "Recycling: Not your father's environmental issue," published in the Hill.