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Plastic bottle recycling (cc photo: Matthewdikmans)

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This week on CounterSpin: In case you missed it: November 15 was America Recycles Day, in which, Newsweek explained ([link removed]) , "thousands of communities participate by promoting environmental citizenship and taking action to increase and improve recycling." If your skepticism were piqued by the day's enthusiastic promotion by Trump EPA administrator Andrew Wheeler ([link removed]) and Trump himself ([link removed]) , perhaps you'd be assuaged by the fact that the group behind America Recycles Day is the veteran nonprofit Keep America Beautiful. Until you realize, that is, that that group is backed by beverage and packaging companies like Coca-Cola, Nestlé and Altria (formerly Phillip Morris), all eager to persuade the public that recycling is an adequate response to the
devastating environmental impact of plastic waste, of which they are fixing to create a great deal more.

Plastics producers like Coke and Nestlé are huge media sponsors, and no-holds-barred reporting about their behind-the-scenes efforts isn't exactly thick on the ground, but it needs to be. We talk this week to one reporter keeping an eye on these things: Sharon Lerner, health and environment reporter ([link removed]) at the Intercept and a reporting fellow at Type Investigations ([link removed]) —about plastic recycling, and what it does and doesn't have to do with you.
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Plus Janine Jackson takes a quick look back at recent coverage of charter schools and the election ([link removed]) .
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