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Lionel Shriver

I recycle – then lie to myself that I’m saving the planet

20 January 2018

9:00 AM

20 January 2018

9:00 AM

‘I just want to say one word to you, just one word. Are you listening? Plastics.’ That iconic punch line from The Graduate, when a businessman gives Dustin Hoffman career advice at a cocktail party, has been circling my head ever since China announced that, as of 2018, it will no longer act as the West’s giant blue wheelie bin.

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