What If We Just Burned All Our Trash?

Published on August 13, 2019
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Captions provided by CCTubes – Captioning the Internet! With Starbucks banning plastic straws and zero waste on trend, is the solution to plastic pollution and climate change burning all the trash?

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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/03/should-we-burn-plastic-waste/
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http://www.fao.org/save-food/resources/keyfindings/en/
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