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The Toxic Pit With A $3 Admission Fee
The Berkeley Pit, in Butte, Montana, was once the richest hill on Earth: the Anaconda Copper Mine. Now: it's not all that rich, and it's not much of a hill. Instead, it's a toxic pit filled with sulfuric acid.
How Everything Became Plastic | Planet Money | NPR
Plastic, you're surrounded by it. But where did it come from? The story starts with some frustrated electrical scientists and a clever chemist named Leo Baekeland.
