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Can you trust companies that say their plastic products are recyclable? US regulators may crack down on deceptive claims

  • Written by Patrick Parenteau, Professor of Law Emeritus, Vermont Law & Graduate School
imageKeurig, maker of K-Cup single-use coffee pods, was recently fined for claiming the pods were recyclable.Dixie D. Vereen/For The Washington Post, via Getty Images

Plastic is a fast-growing segment of U.S. municipal solid waste, and most of it ends up in the environment. Just 9% of plastic collected in municipal solid waste was recycled as of 2018,...

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