What’s happening to all that plastic?

The World

As part of a collaboration with the Center for Public Integrity, we take you to an illegal plastics dump in Malaysia and on a “nurdle hunt” off the Gulf Coast. Host Carol Hills speaks with The World’s Patrick Winn and CPI’s Jamie Smith Hopkins. 

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