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Workers at a balloon factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, dip boards with sticks into a mix of colorful polymers leaving them in the sun. As they begin to dry, they are rolled up and the material forms the end of a blow-up balloon. These are “home-made” and artisanal, but still “single-use-plastic.”

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Plastic or Planet? National Geographic magazine 3/2018
Workers at a balloon factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, dip boards with sticks into a mix of colorful polymers leaving them in the sun. As they begin to dry, they are rolled up and the material forms the end of a blow-up balloon. These are “home-made” and artisanal, but still “single-use-plastic.”