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New Report Makes the Case for Legal Action Over the Fraud of Plastic Recycling (www.commondreams.org)
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[–] FirstCircle@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

Also this article (NPR).

Here, the local gov't collects all of our plastic/paper recyclables, burns them in a gas-fired incinerator, and then claims that they're turning "waste to energy". There's zero recycling happening locally AFAIK despite all the consumer-focused marketing (prominently-labeled curb-side "recycling bins" for example, not "incinerator bins").