http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu Wed, 22 May 2013 13:23:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/01/31/what-happens-to-all-that-plastic/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/01/31/what-happens-to-all-that-plastic/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:14:21 +0000 Renee Cho http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=22369 Today Americans discard about 33.6 million tons of plastic each year, but only 6.5 percent of it is recycled and 7.7 percent is combusted in waste-to-energy facilities. What happens to all the rest of it?]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/01/31/what-happens-to-all-that-plastic/feed/ 14