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#Dow plastered #Singapore with ads for a sneaker #recycling program, promising to turn shoes into playground tracks. But the shoes it collected in "recycling" bins got dumped illegally in #Indonesia. This isn't strange: it's how nearly *all* plastic recycling *always* worked. 1/ 
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Plastic recycling's origin story starts in 1973, when #Exxon's scientists concluded that plastic recycling would never, ever be cost-effective (#ExxonKnew about this, too). 3/
Today 3rd Dec in 1984, gas leak happened from a #UnionCarbide Plant in Bhopal, India claiming of 15,000 to 20,000 deaths eventually and leaving some half million survivors with chronic medical ailments • #Thread
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Worst Industrial Accident as it is called was due to substandard operating and safety procedures at the understaffed plant. Despite several other previous leakage cases the plant was operated to produce MIC
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MIC the leaked gas was denser than air, people with small heights and children were most affected
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