{"id":252401,"date":"2024-06-12T08:45:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T08:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/how-the-recycling-symbol-got-america-addicted-to-plastic\/"},"modified":"2024-06-12T09:09:36","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T09:09:36","slug":"how-the-recycling-symbol-got-america-addicted-to-plastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/how-the-recycling-symbol-got-america-addicted-to-plastic\/","title":{"rendered":"How the recycling symbol got America addicted to plastic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\n      <iframe style=\"margin: 0 auto 20px; width: 100%; height: 100px; border: none; display: none\" data-project-id=\"Yual8er4aaQbafhcldNK\" allowfullscreen=\"false\" allowtransparency=\"\" allow=\"clipboard-read; clipboard-write\" frameborder=\"0\" id=\"ad-auris-iframe\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap has-default-font-family\">It\u2019s Earth Day 1990, and Meryl Streep walks into a bar. She\u2019s distraught about the state of the environment. \u201cIt\u2019s crazy what we\u2019re doing. It\u2019s very, very, very bad,\u201d she says in ABC\u2019s prime-time Earth Day special, letting out heavy sighs and listing jumbled statistics about deforestation and the hole in the ozone layer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\">The bartender, Kevin Costner, says he used to be scared, too \u2014 until he started doing something about it. \u201cThese?\u201d he says, holding up a soda can. \u201cI recycle these.\u201d As Streep prepares to launch her beer can into the recycling bin, Costner cautions her, \u201cThis could change your life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\">Recycling, once considered the domain of people with \u201clong hair, granny glasses, and tie-dyed Ts,\u201d as the Chicago Tribune described it at the time, was about to go mainstream. 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