Your plastic recyclables are getting shipped overseas

[lordsummerisle]

usatoday

The recycling industry is drowning in secrets that put our oceans, and the Earth’s future, at risk.

When I started a social enterprise to keep plastic out of oceans, I was horrified to encounter a tsunami of dirty details in an industry ostensibly focused on cleanliness.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/plastic-recyclables-getting-shipped-overseas-175702001.html

[captain queeg]

1. This has been the case for years

[lordsummerisle]

3. Yes

but it's important to keep bringing it up to avoid complacency...

[cate94]

2. It's really disgraceful.

[keithbvadu2]

4. Trash disposal Ecuador

https://imgur.com/gallery/rRPw2Wg

Trash disposal Ecuador

[keithbvadu2]

5. Trash accumulation Honduras

Trash accumulation Honduras

A massive trash “tsunami” filled with plastic debris is plaguing Honduras beaches — and authorities believe it came from a river in neighboring Guatemala.

https://nypost.com/2020/09/22/massive-trash-tsunami-invades-honduras-beaches/

[cilla4progress]

6. Making an intentional effort to avoid plastic

even though it means using glass, which I can no longer recycle where I live.

I understand the glass will be stable in the landfill, while the fossil-fuel based plastic will disintegrate slowly, over time.