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The United States, the world’s largest plastic polluter, recycles a mere 5% of its household plastic waste. (www.visualcapitalist.com)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago

it’s already been mentioned in a comment but recycling isn’t nearly as helpful as it was intended to be and often acts like a bandage on a festering wound. we just move non-recyclable plastic from one area to another. there’s no real regulation over the labels used to indicate how to recycle something, so your guidelines are often wrong. idk it just seems like we pushed for Americans to recycle and then did absolutely no follow-up on how that was going and whether it was working or not.