Tracking your plastic: Exposing recycling myths (Marketplace)

1. There isn’t much Canadians can do. ALL plastic ends up in a landfill eventually. You cannot just blame recycling companies for sending garbage overseas, because there is so much plastic that it can’t just all be processed in Canada. Even if you sued plastic makers or recycling industries, it’s not going to just stop. Smuggling will keep happening and people will get sick. In fact, if we all did stop making plastic, there is trillions of tons of garbage not only on land, but in the sea. If we were to just get rid of plastic somehow, we would be chopping forests down, and mining like we never have before. There is no actual way to recycle all of the plastic that we are creating.

2. Thank you for this. I will share it with my students.

3. The recycling place about a mile from my house closed down last year. Now the company that picks it up once a month comes from 35 miles away and who knows where it ends up. I live in Michigan, USA and we DO have deposit on pop & beer cans & bottles. Each one has a 10 cent deposit yet some people are still too lazy to return them to the stores for the refund so they throw them out the car window knowing homeless people will pick them up and return them for the money. We need to go back to glass containers and paper bags.

4. Simple. Stop feed capitalism!

5. Your plastic stories has me more aware of my plastic use. I'm trying to reduce my use starting with straws. Not good enough yet. One stubborn American mind changed.

6. Bunch of liars. Billionaire businessman lie

7. Didn’t charge him if it been anyone else they been charged guaranteed

8. Greed …

9. we need more people like Natasha.

10. Canada's #1 export business: trash

11. SHE SHOULD BUY AN OLD 2500 SERIES CHEVY AND LOAD IT UP 2 TIMES A WEEK

12. The average Canadian has a carbon footprint 10 times greater than the average Indonesian.

13. TOTALLY disgusting and scary to think that this garbage will be the downfall and poisining of the planet all in the name of the almighty dollar with total disregard to human health and environmental issues that will eventually overtake natural resources turning them INTO wastelands and pollution that cannot be contained but spread throughout the world by burning toxic waste and disposing waste into our waterways or taking over thousands of acres of land to contain the piles and piles of plastic waste….we are doomed to turning the world as we know it into a toxic wasteland that will eventually overtake natural resources turning them into dumps to contain garbage….. every thing is wrapped in plastic there is no way to avoid it ….time for an alternative folks and Hemp is the answer…read Jack Herer's Book "the emperor wears no clothes"…..might save us from extinction

14. The plastic recycling company I worked for melted down the plastic we got and turned them into pellets to make trash bags.

15. I hve a plan to use all plastics anywhere in the world need help Marketing and it can be gone anywhere any time

16. Plastic can be reduced to oil, but it's very expensive AND there is not a need for it… Perhaps we can go back to paper…..

17. Many cities have stopped recycling…
    It's too expensive and uses too much natural energy to reduce it..
    Recycling is a program that failed….

18. Mexico now makes gasoline and diesel out of plastic

19. That's really jacked up 🤦‍♂️,I will prioritize buying more reusables, vs disposables. I believe if we all cared enough to do that and spread the news, it would eventually make a difference all around the world

20. Well at least its not all over our streets

21. The U.S. has a consumer based economy. To clean up, we must stop buying so much unnecessary stuff. But then our economy with falter. We must think of something as what we're doing is bad for our health and planet.

22. I will not recicle anymore. Will be send to garbage. I’m sorry that my plastic is going to pollute other countries. And hurting their people.

23. Yes it is a scam.

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