Waste land (Bonus)

Recycling most plastic doesn't work. It never has. In 2020, we ran an episode showing how big oil companies misled the public into thinking plastic would be recycled. That episode just won a <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/npr-extra/2022/02/08/1079266276/npr-wins-alfred-i-dupont-columbia-award-for-waste-land-investigative-series">duPont-Columbia award</a>. Here it is. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter <a href="https://www.npr.org/newsletter/money?utm_source=rss_feed_copy&utm_medium=podcast&utm_term=planet_money">here</a>.