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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 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] 1 points 1 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.