In the UK too there's been a lot of news on this: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/may/17/uk-plastics-sent-for-recycling-in-turkey-dumped-and-burne

In the UK too there's been a lot of news on this: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/may/17/uk-plastics-sent-for-recycling-in-turkey-dumped-and-burned-greenpeace-finds https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/may/17/uk-plast... https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/may/16/uk-ewaste-dumped-ghana https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/may/16/uk-ewast... https://www.greenpeace.org/africa/en/blogs/11125/africas-exploding-plastic-nightmare/ https://www.greenpeace.org/africa/en/blogs/11125/africas-exp... Basically recycling companies pay to export the waste to poor countries who simply dump or burn it instead of recycling it. For this reason I avoid plastic and stick to cardboard, glass and aluminium. Fortunately plastic is extremely unfashionable in the UK right now and products are increasingly switching to card or aluminium instead.