Waste Land - NPR | Planet Money | Frontline on PBS

Thorough reporting and digging through memos, notes, and records from the 1970s plastics industry ground this audio expose on the recycling industry, and how it was doomed from the start. Listen to the full program here.

CREDITS

NPR

Correspondent: Laura Sullivan

Senior Producer: Graham Smith

Producer: Cat Schuknecht

Assistant Producer: Huo Jingnan 

Researcher: Barbara Van Woerkom

Editors: Bruce Auster, Steve Drummond, Robert Little

Planet Money

Host: Sarah Gonzalez

Executive Producer: Alex Goldmark

Producer: Darian Woods

Assistant Producer: James Sneed

Editors: Robert Smith, Sarah Gonzalez, Bryant Urstadt

PBS Frontline

Executive Producer: Raney Aronson-Rath

Managing Editor: Andrew Metz

Producer: Rick Young

Co-Producers: Fritz Kramer, Emma Schwartz

Reporter: Fira Abdurachman

Reporting Fellow: Orion Donovan Smith