Sunday, October 20, 2013

How disappointing - the recycling myth

Think your plastic is being recycled? Think again. (Click on this headline to read more)

Rss@dailykos.com (jen Hayden)
Saturday, October 19, 2013, 10:16 pm

Bales of crushed blue PET bottles and bales of various other plastics.
Think those plastic items you carefully separate from the rest of your trash are being responsibly recycled? Think again. U.S. recycling companies have largely stayed away from recycling plastic and most of it has been shipped to China where it can be processed cheaper. Not anymore. This year China announced a Green Fence Policy, prohibiting much of the plastic recycling they once imported:
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