Getting Warmer With Kal Penn
How to Reverse the World’s Plastic Predicament
On a planet increasingly buried under plastic, very little of it is actually recycled. On the first episode of Getting Warmer, Kal Penn explores how we might turn the tide.
Getting Warmer With Kal Penn Episode 1: The Plastic Predicament
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On the first episode of Bloomberg’s Getting Warmer With Kal Penn, our host investigates the toxic relationship humans have with plastic and why we recycle so little of it. In New Jersey, he meets Tom Szaky, whose company TerraCycle promises it can recycle things like cigarette butts and dirty diapers. But does it really?
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