Recycling pollution

[tazdevil]

So this recycling plant might be doing a little bit of environmental harm

[Zigenare]

So this recycling plant might be doing a little bit of environmental harm

In the UK we seem to have quite a few fires at plastic recycling sites - https://www.theguardian.com/sustaina...cycling-plants

[SueEllen]

Is it like water regulation in England where it is cheaper to pollute and pay the fine then to deal with the recycling properly?

[vetran]

Nah we just ship it abroad its not like we share the Earth!

https://committees.parliament.uk/com...alth%20impacts.

An estimated 380 million tonnes of plastic are produced worldwide every year. The enduring nature of plastic products – often designed for single use - has led to a major waste issue, particularly involving plastic packaging for consumer and industrial goods.

The UK exports around 60% of the over 2.5 million tonnes of plastic packaging waste it creates. Turkey is the main destination for this waste. The committee heard alarming accounts of British plastic waste being dumped and burned in Turkey, causing “irreversible and shocking” environmental and human health impacts.

[ladymuck]

Nah we just ship it abroad its not like we share the Earth!

https://committees.parliament.uk/com...alth%20impacts.

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[SueEllen]

I thought Turkey had changed its name to Türkiye?

[dsc]

Don't have to look far, majority of your recycling bin goes in the incinerator anyway. So all that sorting malarkey, washing yogurt pots etc. is absolutely pointless.

[SueEllen]

Don't have to look far, majority of your recycling bin goes in the incinerator anyway. So all that sorting malarkey, washing yogurt pots etc. is absolutely pointless.

Problem is that they shove it with other households recycling and if it "contaminated" e.g. something is mixed in the container it shouldn't be then the entire stuff is disposed off.

Also Norway and some other EU countries import our waste to incinerate for energy.

[dsc]

Problem is that they shove it with other households recycling and if it "contaminated" e.g. something is mixed in the container it shouldn't be then the entire stuff is disposed off.

Also Norway and some other EU countries import our waste to incinerate for energy.

Big problem is that a lot of place simply get incentives to burn the lot, rather than recycle.

This whole household waste recycling scheme is basically a scam, around 10-15% of what you sort and "recycle" actually gets recycled, the rest just burns and creates more CO2 than burning coal. It's all in place to make people feel good about all the tulipe they throw away and how much of it actually gets produced.

Best of luck to planet Earth...

[NotAllThere]

When German wind turbines reach end of life, they're burned. For electricity.