America’s grungy ‘recycled’ plastic is creating wastelands in Asia

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The World’s Patrick Winn tracks down “recycled” plastic that is ending up in Malaysia. Piles of plastic, mostly food packaging from the US, is burned here. Activists say the US has the power to fix what’s become an environmental emergency

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