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Reasonable_Ticket_84 t1_j522qhq wrote

Reply to comment by akarichard in Bloomberg: Amazon Packages Burn in India, Final Stop in Broken Recycling System. Plastic wrappers and parcels that start off in Americans’ recycling bins end up at illegal dumpsites and industrial furnaces — and inside the lungs of people by ombx

Many US municipalities still run "recycling" operations but ever since China and a few other Asian countries banned imports of "recycling" waste, they largely go to landfill. However, the "all-in one" recycling programs especially go to the landfill because its considered too expensive to even sort the recyclables in the US.

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Telid t1_j52gssw wrote

Well, that made all my effort in making sure to recycle feel very pyrrhic.

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