Yourbubblestink t1_ixfhoub wrote on November 23, 2022 at 1:20 AM

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

bluestargreentree t1_ixg6kvy wrote on November 23, 2022 at 4:53 AM

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.

nedasherman283 t1_ixh0ezn wrote on November 23, 2022 at 11:20 AM

Waste to energy is the new term

Yourbubblestink t1_ixifq1c wrote on November 23, 2022 at 6:01 PM

Or Lol ‘energy recovery’.

bwma t1_ixpznns wrote on November 25, 2022 at 11:45 AM

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