The Great Recycling Scam: How Big Plastic Fooled America | Julia Cohen

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark · Jul 31, 2026 · 1h 9m

Everything you put in that blue recycling bin? Most of it was never actually recycled.

Julia Cohen, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Plastic Pollution Coalition, is here to explain the biggest PR campaign of the last 50 years — and why it worked so well. We get into the microplastics and chemicals now showing up in human blood, brains, and breast milk, the everyday items quietly exposing you, and what the plastics industry has been hiding from you the whole time.

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