• Nuke_the_whales
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    5 months ago

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

    • Cort
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      5 months 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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        5 months ago

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

    • wdx@feddit.org
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      5 months ago

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

    • Shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works
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      5 months 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.