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Puppets Pick Apart Plastic Myths

January 15, 2022January 18, 2022 Mike Nowak Blair Thomas, Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival, climate change, environment, Illinois Recycling Foundation, Marta Keane, Natural Awakenings Chicago Magazine, Peggy Malecki, plastic myths, Robin Frohardt, The Mike Nowak Show, The Plastic Bag Store

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The 2020 Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival is coming to Chicago this week. We talk to its founder, Blair Thomas, and to artist Robin Frohardt, who has created an installation called The Plastic Bag Store. It is stocked with food-like items that are handcrafted from discarded, single-use NYC plastic trash. Marta Keane from the Illinois Recycling Foundation joins the conversation to talk about how we deal with what is a world-wide plastic crisis. Meteorologist Rick DiMaio reports on snowstorms in America and exploding volcanoes in the Pacific Ocean.

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What Happened to Glass Recycling

November 13, 2021November 14, 2021 Mike Nowak Bartlett Tree Experts, Don't Trash Glass, environment, Glass Packaging Institute, Illinois Recycling Foundation, Jill Bondi, Peggy Malecki, Scott DeFife, sustainability, The Mike Nowak Show, tree care, women in arboriculture

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Scott DeFife from the Glass Packaging Institute and the Glass Recycling Foundation reports on efforts to increase the glass recycling rate in Chicago and the U.S. Jill Bondi of Bartlett Tree Experts explains how more and more women are getting into the tree care industry.