This was quite hard hitting. I mean, if you're a consumer in the US where even a simple piece of fruit comes packaged often in plastic, you know the piece of plastic isn't going to be completely recycled. I always thought this ends up in a landfill which is bad in itself!
There have been a few other outlets that have focused on this problem in the past. John Oliver did a segment too.
Are there any startups working in this space? Incineration is quite bad if the fumes aren't contained - is there research happening in controlling/eliminating toxins even if incineration is done?
This has been the reality since (just after) the onset of the recycle narrative took off. Noise is made, action never taken. The news outlets that show the horrific fatal diseases that children (with no other income) acquire through the scavenging has been a slow news day story for decades. See youtube - children, scavenge, dump. Anyone who sees the horrific waste of child-serving-sized coke plastic bottles, held together by more plastic, for 8$ at Target^ should be disgusted by the unavoidable sins of the US capitalist culture.
^You can get glass bottles held together by cardboard for slightly less, not that I'm advocating this purchase either.
There have been a few other outlets that have focused on this problem in the past. John Oliver did a segment too.
Are there any startups working in this space? Incineration is quite bad if the fumes aren't contained - is there research happening in controlling/eliminating toxins even if incineration is done?