Kyle Lewis, the city recycling program director, spoke at last week’s East Torresdale Civic Association meeting.

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What I really want to talk about is landfills. So perhaps I should have added “piles of garbage” to my alliterative headline.

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In a new study, scientists from the universities of Portsmouth and Manchester report that a specially engineered enzyme can significantly speed up the breakdown of PET—the plastic used in water ...