We’ve Seen It With Smoking And Drunk Driving. How’s This For The Next Public Health Campaign?

The world’s trash problem is kind of like cleaning your room when you were a kid: shoving all the junk on the floor under your bed, and calling it … clean. Except all of the “beds” of the world today can’t cover up the big mess we’ve created.

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