A Waste Management employee removes plastic, which accidentally made it through the sorting process, from a bale of mixed paper that is being prepared to be loaded onto a truck at the company's facility on Gasmer Drive in southwest Houston, Monday, Nov. 19, 2018. NEXT: See photos from an initiative to clean plastics from the Pacific Ocean.  Photo: Mark Mulligan, Houston Chronicle / Staff Photographer / © 2018 Mark Mulligan / Houston Chronicle
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