Plastic bags from Walmarts all over the United States wait to be processed at a facility that is being converted from a derelict food processing plant into a recycling plant in Montezuma, Ga.
Photograph by Melissa Golden, Redux
- Ted Siegler, an economist and partner at DSM Environmental Services in Windsor, Vermont, and a co-author of the study.
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“We’ve got 70 of the top organizations in the world on board and 25 brands,” he says. “We’re in regular dialogue with top industry leaders. But I’ve had at least a dozen U.S. companies tell me they didn’t feel like it made sense for them to join because this is largely an Asian issue.”