Recycling

Our planet is awash in garbage, especially plastic. Our land, oceans, lakes and rivers are choked with plastic. It’s even been found in the Marianas Trench 6.5 miles under the sea and all over Mount Everest. It has permeated the food chain, and the air we breathe, and it falls in rainwater. For decades, recycling was billed as the panacea that would save us from our garbage. Why didn’t it work?Connect on Facebook or at the Failed Utopia website.Links & ResourcesNational Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255Crisis Text Line: text HOME to 741 741Domestic Violence Helpline: 1-800-799-7233VictimConnect, a referral helpline for victims of crime: 1-855-484-2846For veterans, Make The ConnectionNPR’s Is Plastic Recycling a Lie? How Big Oil Misled The Public Into Believing Plastic Would Be RecycledThe Atlantic’s Is This the End of Recycling? What Happens Now That China Won’t Take U.S. RecyclingKurzgesagt’s Plastic Pollution: How Humans are Turning the World into PlasticWritten and produced by Anna RobertsBurning palm tree artwork by Perry VasquezIntro music by Elliot Middleton