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# Recycling/Plastics
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/show/life-heart-land/episode/recyclingplastics-1xtjyo/
- Published: 2024-04-02T23:19:10.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-08T20:30:49.000Z
- Description: Learn how rural communities deal with issues regarding their plastic waste.
- Author: Cascade PBS Staff
- Tags: Life In The Heart Land, Season 1, Episode 103, #ZZZ_Episode_74ed4abc-863f-4908-9805-0f8461c3673b, #episode, #ZZZ_Show_54fb63ef-da75-4b1a-8ced-f3de36413496, #v1.16

In 2017 China stopped receiving foreign waste materials creating a major disruption in the status quo of U.S. recycling forcing a reckoning of how waste products are and can be recycled and repurposed. Explore the feasibility of both small- and large-scale solutions for what to do with our plastic waste and how to create circular economy that protects the planet.