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Jan Dell is a former chemical engineer who has spent years telling an inconvenient truth about plastics. "So many people, they see the recyclable label, and they put it in the recycle bin," she said. ...

A dumpster full of recycled plastic is emptied at Tank’s Speedway Recycling and Landfill in Tucson, Arizona, in March. Diannie Chavez The Republic / USA TODAY NETWORK Recycling was once considered the ...

Until recently, that number was still accurate for the United States, which — according to the most recent data from the Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA — recycled about 8.7 percent of its ...

Correction: An earlier version of this story included a quotation that misstated the percentage of carpet that gets recycled in California. The correct rate is 28 percent. Jan Dell, the outspoken ...

Evidence of the economic opportunities that a circular economy could bring is mounting. The potential environmental impact is also clear. The move to a circular economy—a system that aims to reduce, ...