<p><em>Two garbage trucks of plastic hit the ocean every minute. Microplastics are in your brain. Recycling doesn’t work. What the plastic industry never told you.</em></p><p>In this<em> </em><a target="_blank" href="https://whowhatwhy.org/podcast/from-ocean-to-bloodstream-the-reality-about-plastic/"><strong><em>WhoWhatWhy</em></strong></a><a target="_blank" href="https://whowhatwhy.org/podcast/from-ocean-to-bloodstream-the-reality-about-plastic/"><strong> podcast</strong></a>, former EPA Regional Administrator <strong>Judith Enck </strong>pulls back the curtain on an industry built on deception. Her new book, <strong><em>The Problem with Plastic</em></strong>, connects dots most people miss — between fracking booms and plastic floods, between what you’re told to recycle and what actually happens, between industry promises and courtroom battles that reveal decades of lies.</p><p>You think you know about plastic pollution. You’ve heard about ocean gyres, you recycle diligently, maybe you switched to a reusable water bottle. But here’s what they haven’t told you: Two garbage trucks worth of plastic enter the ocean <em>every minute</em>. Recycling? It’s a lie — only 5-6 percent of plastic actually gets recycled, and the industry has known this since the 1970s.</p><p>Chemical recycling, the new salvation, doesn’t work. And those microplastics aren’t just in fish anymore — they’re in your brain, your heart arteries, your kidneys, with no known way to get them out.</p><p></p> <br/><br/>Get full access to Talk Cocktail Podcast at <a href="https://jeffschechtman.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_4">jeffschechtman.substack.com/subscribe</a>