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Experts Advocate Eventual End to Single-Use Plastics, but Composites May Be Safe

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Experts Advocate Eventual End to Single-Use Plastics, but Composites May Be Safe
A hungry elephant searches through piles of rubbish for food in West Bengal, India, highlighting the harsh reality of the world’s plastic pollution crisis. Pranab Das / CATERS NEWS
Nathan Worcester
By Nathan Worcester
3/30/2023Updated: 3/30/2023
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A Senate hearing on March 30 underscored the widespread concern about single-use plastics, as experts and lawmakers discussed plastics pollution, plastic recycling, and the potential hazards of outsourcing plastics production to China.

Hota GangaRao, a composites specialist and professor at West Virginia University, and Chelsea Rochman, an ecologist and professor at the University of Toronto, both said single-use plastics may need to become a thing of the past, at least at some point to come.

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Nathan Worcester is an award-winning journalist for The Epoch Times based in Washington, D.C. He frequently covers Capitol Hill, elections, and the ideas that shape our times. He has also written about energy and the environment. Nathan can be reached at [email protected]
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