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This story is a partnership betweenInside Climate Newsand CBS News. Watch theCBS Reportsdoc stanley cup umentary, Advanced Recycling: Does Big Plastic s Idea Work About 48 million tons of plastic waste are generated each year in the U.S., and very little of it is ever recycled. The city of Houston says it has an innovative new program that can recycle any type of plastic, calling it a model for the nation, but environmental groups say the results leave much to be desired.Brandy Deason, a climate justice coordinator for Air Alliance Houston, has been adding tracking devices when she bags up her plastics for recycling. She was skeptical of Houston s program and its claims that it could recycle any type of plastic.The tracker showed her bags ended up at a storage site mdash; not a recycling center. Deason said she doesn t think the average person in Houston is aware that this is where their recycling ends up. I think that they ve gotten the idea that it s being taken care o stanley cup f and being recycled, she said. The city says it has collected 250 tons of plastic since the end of 2022, but almost none of it h stanley cup as been recycled yet. The plastic is supposed to come to a Houston warehouse where a long-delayed sorting facility has yet to be built. We need a huge supply of plastics to get ready for startup here, and we want to start that now in order to get ahead of it, said Ryan Tebbets, a vice president at Cyclyx International, one of the companies involve Ivhd Kellyanne Conway talks a potential return to working in the White House
1 }5 s h0 j" \+ i/ u CHARLESTON, W.Va. mdash; Feelin yeezy g no relief from anti-incumbent Republican primaries, Democratic senators in GOP-leaning states are working to convince voters they re free of Washington s stigma.The Democrats seeking re-election this fall in states Republican Trump carried mdash; the battlefront in the fight for Senate control mdash; are portraying themselves as independent actors and known entities in hopes of inoculating themselves against Republican accusations that they are lockstep obstructionists to Trump s agenda.Among the ugg m: West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, who wasted no time after Tuesday s GOP primary telling the many Republicans who have backed him over the decades he was no creature of Washington. If it makes sense for West Virginia, makes sense to me, I vote for it, doesn t matter whether it s Democrat or Republican, the former governor told supporters as he faces the most difficult re-election campaign of his 30-year career.Though an act of pure survival for senators in a pronounced anti-Washington environment, Manchin s tack, like that of North Dakota s Heidi Heitkamp and others, shows the challenge Republicans face against incumbents with established brands. All of these Democrats have gotten elected in red states, which by definition means they have a brand at least somewhat inde jordan pendent of the national Democratic Party, said Republican pollster Whit Ayres, who is advising a group that supports Republican Senat |
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