Big Oil Touted Recycling to Sell More Plastic, and Left Cities Grappling With a Costly Waste Problem
Just because that plastic item you rinsed out and placed in your recycling bin is labeled as recyclable doesn't mean it actually is., most types of plastics in the U.S. are not recyclable and usually end up in landfills or incinerators, if not polluting the environment. The vast majority of recycling facilities across the country can only accept two types of plastics, the report found, and even then only a small fraction of that plastic waste is actually processed.
"Instead of getting serious about moving away from single-use plastic, corporations are hiding behind the pretense that their throwaway packaging is recyclable," said John Hocevar, Greenpeace USA oceans campaign director, in a press release announcing the report's findings."We know now that this is untrue. The jig is up."
Only 8.4% of discarded plastic actually goes through the full recycling process to be transformed into other products. The rest ends up in landfills. So how are so many companies still touting their plastic products as recyclable? The New York Times explains.Most plastic products are imprinted with a number surrounded by a triangle of arrows, known as a resin identification code.
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