Giving consumers a choice to recycle to better the environment doesn’t work and is dumb. Evidently, if I want to stop plastic pollution, I need to carefully sort my plastics, but only certain types with my garbage service. This ends up being about half of my purchases. The other half of plastics just go into my garbage bin for landfill. Nevermind the plastic number on each item.
Same with batteries! Everybody is just tossing them. I’m suppose to put tape in the ends and put them in a zip lock. People are not going to do this.
We need laws for the source of the issue instead of these fake fixes that rely on the consumer to “do good” that didn’t work.
The process can be done. But the way it’s done in reality is shipping pressed chunks to China and if they’re dirty they’re not worth recycling. And any one thing in there can make the whole thing contaminated easily. And China doesn’t want to do that anymore.
This not how it’s done in the Netherlands. It used to be that way many years ago, but like you said, China isn’t buying anymore.