• @Nuke_the_whales
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    41 month ago

    Serious question, how is the recycling I put in my blue bin ending up in the ocean?

    • @Cort
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      61 month ago

      It doesn’t get recycled domestically so it’s got to be shipped somewhere. Not too far to imagine some of it going overboard.

      • @bingrazer
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        21 month ago

        Also much of the “recycled” plastic isn’t recycled, but instead burned or dumped.

    • @[email protected]
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      31 month ago

      Sold off to the lowest bidder who then “handles the recycling” - aka dumps it on some landfill in a 3rd world country.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 month ago

      Only a percentage of everything you put in your recycling bin actually ends up being recycled, so the percentage that doesn’t can end up god knows where.