Julia Cohen
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587 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 31 Jul
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And they're often packaged in individual plastic bags as well, even when they're sent to clothing stores to be sold in retail.
People behind the scenes in retail are ripping everything out of like plastic bags to put up on a hanger and
There's enough clothes on this planet already to like, I think, clothe all the people for like more than a few years.
Right.
I mean, the majority of fast fashion is.
is if it's even worn, worn maybe once or a few times, often falls apart much more quickly and gets thrown away or donated and ends up in other countries in the global south.
You can see film footage, photographs of massive piles of land filled
They are mountains.
Those are mountains.
And sometimes they catch on fire.
And, you know, so then they're burning molten plastic mountains.
People live next to those, you know, mountains of our clothes.
And trash and people.
There's an entire informal community of what are referred to as waste pickers who go through those mounds to find things that they can resell or that have some value to help support themselves and their families.
Well, it depends on where you live, because in the United States, every town, every city, every community has its own recycling system.
And the majority of plastic is not recycled.
What is considered recycled is generally downcycled or incinerated or shipped to another country.
Recycling for metals, for paper, for aluminum even, glass, those things have super high recycling rates and are worth the taxpayer dollar and energy and effort to sort them and have them be transformed back into, you know, a glass bottle can be turned into a glass bottle again.
A plastic bottle is not turned back into a plastic bottle again.
I wouldn't want to eat or drink out of anything with recycled plastic anyway.
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