Coming up on today’s show:
On Saturday in Afghanistan, a suicide bomber killed more than 100 people and injured roughly 235 others. Joining The Takeaway to make some sense of the violence is Barnett Rubin, director of the Afghanistan Pakistan Regional Program at NYU’s Center on International Cooperation, and former adviser to both the U.S. State Department and the United Nations.
China takes half of the world’s recyclables, but last year the nation declared it no longer wanted to be the “world’s garbage dump.” Kate O’Neill is associate professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at the University of California, Berkeley. She joins The Takeaway to discuss where our recyclables really go, and the impact of China’s new policies.
This episode is hosted by Todd Zwillich
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