• Cort@lemmy.world
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      2 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.

    • wdx
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      2 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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      2 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.