The Color of Climate

People in Developing Countries Are Being Poisoned by America’s Plastic Waste

New research shows the U.S. is among the world’s top plastic polluters but isn’t doing its part to clean up

Waste pickers scour for plastics in an illegal dump in the Philippines. Photo illustration source: Nick Mallos/Ocean Conservancy

This is The Color of Climate, a weekly column from Future Human exploring how climate change and…