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It's time we confront the ugly truth about plastic recycling
« on: October 12, 2025, 06:17:14 am »

It's time we confront the ugly truth about plastic recycling
Opinion by Holly Kaufman • 3d

Every week, you probably dump a bag of recyclables into a big blue bin. And you probably feel good that you're sending it off for recycling, including your plastic bottles, milk jugs and berry baskets.

Well, sorry. Most of that plastic waste won't get recycled. It will likely either be flung into a landfill, shipped to a foreign country and heaped onto an already colossal mountain of trash, burned or dumped in the ocean, degrading into smaller and smaller bits, but never going "away."
 
That's why California Attorney General Rob Bonta sued major plastic producer and recycling myth master ExxonMobil last year, and why he just announced his intention to sue some of their brethren - to unwrap the truth about plastic recycling.

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Re: It's time we confront the ugly truth about plastic recycling
« Reply #1 on: October 12, 2025, 06:19:11 am »
Is someone suggesting the government didn't know this all along but went along with the lies to keep citizens quiet?
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Re: It's time we confront the ugly truth about plastic recycling
« Reply #2 on: October 12, 2025, 06:46:36 am »
Recycling was a scam all along and most people knew it.  I'm forced to recycle by the local government where I live but everyone knows that the stuff heads straight to the landfill instead of a recycling center.  And don't get me started on obsolete electronics and what to do with them.
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