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0pimo t1_j52j0dn 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

If it's a company like Republic, it goes to a sort center where the material is separated and processed further.

Plastic should really just go into an incinerator though. We operate clean incinerators in the US.

There are a few places that take it and make products out of it though. There's a company that will turn it into plastic decking for building patio decks with.

Big part of the problem with Plastic is that China undercut the market for so long, all of the plants that processed it in the US went bankrupt. Then China stopped taking it so now we're all fucked.

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