On this week's edition of Please Explain, we'll focus our attention on plastic bags. They make up 5% of New York City's solid waste, and worldwide, up to a trillion bags are used every year. We'll talk to Ben Miller, the author of Fat of the Land: Garbage in New York, the Last Two Hundred Years. He's also the president of CommunityCartography, Inc. and a senior fellow at the CUNY Institute for Urban Systems. He's joined by Peter Anderson, President of Recycleworlds Consulting, a firm based in Madison, Wisconsin.
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