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Karen Wirsig

Stop recycling failed ideas to manage plastic waste

Opinion | BY KAREN WIRSIG | October 19, 2022
Some of the so-called recycling imagined for the future would not turn plastic back into plastic, but rather into chemicals and fuel, an expensive, polluting and climate-warming strategy that should not be called recycling, writes Karen Wirsig. The Hill Times Photograph by Kristen Shane
Opinion | BY KAREN WIRSIG | October 19, 2022
Opinion | BY KAREN WIRSIG | October 19, 2022
Some of the so-called recycling imagined for the future would not turn plastic back into plastic, but rather into chemicals and fuel, an expensive, polluting and climate-warming strategy that should not be called recycling, writes Karen Wirsig. The Hill Times Photograph by Kristen Shane
Opinion | BY KAREN WIRSIG | October 19, 2022
Some of the so-called recycling imagined for the future would not turn plastic back into plastic, but rather into chemicals and fuel, an expensive, polluting and climate-warming strategy that should not be called recycling, writes Karen Wirsig. The Hill Times Photograph by Kristen Shane
Opinion | BY KAREN WIRSIG | October 19, 2022
Opinion | BY KAREN WIRSIG | October 19, 2022
Some of the so-called recycling imagined for the future would not turn plastic back into plastic, but rather into chemicals and fuel, an expensive, polluting and climate-warming strategy that should not be called recycling, writes Karen Wirsig. The Hill Times Photograph by Kristen Shane
Opinion | BY KAREN WIRSIG | June 21, 2021
Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson announced next steps in the federal government's plan to achieve zero plastic waste by 2030 in October last year.
Opinion | BY KAREN WIRSIG | June 21, 2021
Opinion | BY KAREN WIRSIG | June 21, 2021
Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson announced next steps in the federal government's plan to achieve zero plastic waste by 2030 in October last year.