# Houston, we have a plastic problem!

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Podcast: [Living Planet](https://stenobird.com/podcast/living-planet-429845)
Published: 2026-03-20T11:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

Chemical recycling promises to transform plastic waste, and Houston is at the center of this big experiment in the US. While industry touts it as a breakthrough, activists are finding that much of the plastic doesn't get recycled after all. Is Houston leading the way to real change - or revealing the limits of the latest recycling fad?

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