As Discover magazine pointed out a decade ago, recycling is tricky business. A 2010 Columbia University study found that just 16.5 percent of the plastic collected by the New York Department of Sanitation was “recyclable.”
“This results in nearly half of the plastics collected being landfilled,” researchers concluded.
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Read all about it below:
https://fee.org/articles/america-finally-admits-recycling-doesn-t-work/
Looks like it’s happening all over. It’s all a con job. Check this video out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqrlEsPoyJk
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We have been conditioned for many years to do landfill and when you actually think about it, it is so toxic to the Earth. I like the reduce and reuse ideas in fact if we had paper bags instead of plastic for those who have a garden could compost it and that is reuse and recycle. There are so many youngster who are developing amazing ideas to use waste I think they should be encouraged. The Earth, Our Mother is suffering greatly from the toxic waste and many people do not have any idea about this. Very interesting post.
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