How Cities Can Lead the Fight Against Trash

I awoke at dawn in my Times Square hotel, stepped into the bathroom, and with a shudder starting thinking of Jeremy Irons.

Not after looking in the mirror – far from it – but because the night before I’d heard him talk about the massive amount of plastic there is in the world, overflowing from landfills, spewing toxins in the air when burned, floating in massive flotillas in the oceans, stubbornly refusing to biodegrade. And there it was at my sink – the comb I’d requested, wrapped in plastic, the toothbrush, the razor. All handed to me, for good measure, in a plastic bag.