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About 48 million tons of plastic waste is generated in the U.S. each year .
Only 5 to 6 percent of it is recycled, according to the Department of Energy .
A new report accuses the plastics industry of a decades -long campaign to mislead the public about plastic recycling.
The American Chemistry Council says it supports more recycling.
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