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Yourbubblestink t1_ixfhoub wrote

The recycling industry has collapsed. There is not any real recycling going on unless you consider burning trash for energy a form of recycling.

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bluestargreentree t1_ixg6kvy wrote

Not sure how true this is but it is true that china has pretty much stopped buying a lot of plastics, making it way more expensive, if not impossible, to recycle compared to incinerate/landfill.

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bwma t1_ixpznns wrote

I read that only 5-6% of recycling actually gets recycled

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