• SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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    17 hours ago

    Bad news: over 90% of plastic with those recycle tags end up exported and burned to make electricity.

    • Cam@scribe.disroot.org
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      16 hours ago

      It’s also burnt to make cement. Or just burnt, in Spain “mysterious fires” in sorting/recycling plants that only affected the plastic trash were pretty common after China stopped importing ship containers filled with mixed and unrecyclable plastics. I don’t know what is going on now, blessed ignorance, fuck reality.