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    Commentary: Berkeley declares war on throwaway culture

    by Annie Leonard and Martin Bourque, Los Angeles Times Jan 30, 2019 2 minutes

    Any American school kid can recite the common wisdom for tackling our massive plastic trash problem: reduce, reuse, recycle.

    But it's not that simple.

    Addressing plastic pollution has to focus far more on reducing and reusing. It is simply not a problem we can recycle our way out of.

    People assume that when they toss plastic packaging into a bin, it will get collected,

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