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Wired Magazine: Plastic Rain is the New Acid Rain, Matt Simon, June 11, 2020

Rolling Stone Magazine: Planet Plastic, Tim Dickinson, March 3, 2020

Gizmodo, The Lie Behind Plastic Pollution Is That We’re Responsible, Michaela Barnett, June 29, 2020

Forbes: New Enzyme Breaks Down Plastic In Hours And Enables High-Quality Recycling, Scott Snowden, April 11, 2020

Our World in Data: Plastic Pollution, Hannah Ritchie & Max Roser, September 2018

Science News: Chemists are reimagining recycling to keep plastics out of landfills, Maria Temming, January 27 2021

Los Angeles Times: Plastic trash is not just litter. It’s a climate change problem, too, Times Editorial Board, January 3 2021

Science Magazine: In the next 30 years, we’ll make four times more plastic waste than we ever have, Giorgia Guglielmi, July 19, 2017

WastedDive: The unfulfilled promises of plastic film recycling, Karine Vann, January 5, 2021

Fast Company: Companies in Maine will now have to pay to help fix the broken recycling system, Adele Peters, July 14, 2021

Berkeley News: New process makes ‘biodegradable’ plastics truly compostable, Robert Sanders, April 21, 2021