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Creating a throw-away culture: How companies ingrained plastics in modern life

A trash can overflows as people sit outside of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington, D.C.

Plastic has become embedded in everyday life. That’s because for the last 70 years, the plastics industry convinced consumers to embrace the material for its low cost and disposability.

(Image credit: Jacquelyn Martin/AP)

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