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Yeah yeah yeah... I'm not saying we don't do any recycling... just that generally it's not what people think it is. Glass, metals and PET bottles are the easy ones...Look at the recycling of plastic bottles and tin cans. 20 years ago these would have been buried in the ground like everything else was. Not now.
Another example of a recycling 'con' was Starbucks coffee cups which used to say on the side "100% recyclable"... which was true... however there was only 1 plant in the country that had the technology to do it... and only saw <0.1% of all the coffee cups.
I think they're in the process of changing the design to make them more generally recyclable... which is good, but they had to be called out in the media for that to happen.
IMHO, I don't think we've found the right model to deal with plastics waste yet... all the time plastics are so cheap to produce and so easy to use, manufacturers will continue to use them in abundance. Putting the onus on local authorities to then collect it all up and recycle it simply doesn't work. But how do you change this model ? How do you make the producers and users of plastics more responsible 'up front' ? Taxes ??