"If you put your plastic in your recycling bin, there’s a decent chance it will end up in the seas off east Asia. If you put it in landfill, it’s going nowhere"
That article isn't terrible, but it links to https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S092134492... which essentially calculated that since x% of trash in a country goes to the ocean, then a similar % of recycled material that that country receives also goes to the ocean. (It's not the study I read, but it makes the same error.)
This is a false connection. Countries pay money for recycling, they are not going to turn around and dump that valuable material in the ocean.
Contrary to what many people think, recycling producers do NOT pay poor countries to accept plastic, it's the other way around.
"Want to save the oceans? Stop recycling plastic
"If you put your plastic in your recycling bin, there’s a decent chance it will end up in the seas off east Asia. If you put it in landfill, it’s going nowhere"
https://inews.co.uk/opinion/landfill-better-recycled-plastic...