Does Recycling Matter? The Revolutionary Lab That’s Changing Science June 17, 2019 / activist360 / Leave a comment “Recycling is like a Band-Aid on gangrene,” says Dr. Max Liboiron, director of the Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research (CLEAR) in Newfoundland. “The only mode of attack is to deal with a heavy decrease in the production of plastics, as opposed to dealing with them after they’ve already been created.” Dr. Liboiron’s research on microplastics interrogates the scientific method with feminist and anti-colonialist methodology.