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Your blue bin recyclables were shipped to Asia and then dumped into a river. There's no economic sense to plastic recycling. The only viable strategies are to s
by srj 7y ago
Your blue bin recyclables were shipped to Asia and then dumped into a river. There's no economic sense to plastic recycling. The only viable strategies are to standardize on reuse or promote materials that are recyclable (i.e. aluminum).
- brandon272 7y agoNot to mention that plenty of people are not "meticulously washing and sorting" their recyclables and the popular method of single stream recycling is producing contaminated recycling streams filled with trash and non-compliant items. https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-era-of-easy-recycling-may-be-coming-to-an-end/ https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-era-of-easy-recycli...