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The Garbage Barge That Helped Fuel a Movement | Full Report

Season 1 Episode 3

The 1987 garbage barge was a fiasco, but it helped raise public awareness about recycling.

In the 1980s, rising public awareness about waste was fueled by a bizarre news story: the story of New York’s meandering garbage barge. Today, Americans recycle about 68 million tons of trash.

AIR DATE 10/14/19

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Retro Report makes sense of the present by revealing the past. Join journalists Celeste Headlee and Masud Olufani as they connect the present to the past through four distinct and varied stories, and New Yorker humorist Andy Borowitz adds his signature wit.

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