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COVID-19 is laying waste to many US recycling programs

  • Written by Brian J. Love, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan
imageA discarded medical glove in Jersey City, N.J., April 27, 2020.Arturo Holmes/Getty Images

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the U.S. recycling industry. Waste sources, quantities and destinations are all in flux, and shutdowns have devastated an industry that was already struggling.

Many items designated as reusable, communal or secondhand have...

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