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It’s Earth Day 1990, and Meryl Streep walks into a bar. She’s distraught about the state of the environment. “It’s crazy what we’re doing. It’s very, very, very bad,” she says in ABC’s prime-time ...

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In a survey conducted by the Carton Council of North America, 75 percent of respondents say they assume a package is not recyclable if it does not contain a recycling logo or information. Image ...