Glass is good too AFAIK
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nthavoc@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
You know what’s also shitty about recycling? The companies that pick that bin in some areas throw it in another bin which gets shipped an “out of country” recycling company to make it someone else’s problem. In the shipping process, that plastic falls off into the ocean making a worse problem now than just throwing it into regular waste management. Also, the process to recycle is more toxic than just throwing it away because the companies use really old processes; like paper for example. I gave up recycling except for metals.
Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
In the US the majority of recycling isn’t.
PlaidBaron@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yeah this is largely a US problem. Not that some of this doesnt happen in other countries but at least in my part of Canada most of the recycling is sold to in-province companies. A few get exported to the states. A very small amount goes to Europe or Asia.