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443. A Sneak Peek at Biden’s Top Economist

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Plastic Shopping Bags and Plastic Straws Are a Good Example, Right?

The typical plastic bag gets used for twelve minutes. That's the lifetime of its usage. Most of our consumption model is built on a use and throw out, with some small share in fifteen per cent or someot of recycling. In order for the actual cycling economy to work, you have to really change the economics of these inputs. So those economics need to change, including very significant government policy.

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