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is week on Green Street, Patti and Doug talk about how plants take up plastic and what it means for agriculture (and your garden veggies), how plastic dust from construction sites is a major source of worldwide pollution, and why the smoke from wildfires is much more hazardous and damaging than previously understood. Then, in a reprise interview, Dr. Veena Singla from the National Resources Defense Council talks about the various ways in which plastic manufacturers are trying – so far unsuccessfully – to recycle their product and convince the public that our global plastic crisis can be easily solved. (We are re-running this interview because of the Trump administration’s plan to re-classify burning plastic as “manufacturing.”)