Waste disposal, composting, recycling

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• Compostable plastics: are they PLAying you?
  Aubrey Hills, SERC - Student Environmental Resource Center, University of California Berkeley, March 10, 2017
  Although #7 PLA products can technically be composted, the reality is: that is simply not happening. Allie Lalor, a senior at UC Berkeley and a member of the Cal Dining sustainability team, recently had the opportunity to visit the UC Berkeley composting facility Republic Services in Richmond. After speaking with a manager, Allie learned why these plastics do not end up as composted matter.
• Plastic Wars: Industry Spent Millions Selling Recycling — To Sell More Plastic
  Laura Sullivan, NPR All Things Considered, March 31, 2020
  The vast majority of all plastic produced can't be or won't be recycled. In 40 years, less than 10% of plastic has ever been recycled.
  In a joint investigation, NPR and the PBS series Frontline found that oil and gas companies — the makers of plastic — have known that all along, even as they spent millions of dollars telling the American public the opposite.