Visited a recycling facility recently. It’s a private company that covers an entire county in California. They filter the garbage wit people and a big machine and seem to get paid by companies abroad to ship them all recyclable materials - plastics, cardboard, metals, glass. That pays enough to keep them in business for decades. Someone really needs to look at where the materials from our garbage go.
I toured a sorting facility in Seattle recently. They said the only really profitable output is aluminum, everything else costs more than virgin material.
> Someone really needs to look at where the materials from our garbage go
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/21/us-plastic-r...
https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/897692090/how-big-oil-misled-...
https://gijn.org/stories/case-studies-investigating-where-ga...
https://www.plasticpollutioncoalition.org/blog/2022/5/16/wha...