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Originally Posted by PeteMoss
Even the stuff that is allowed the blue box - the waste majority of it either ends up being shipped to Asia to 'recycle' it (part of why they pollute the oceans) or just ends up in the dump. Very low percentage of recyclable plastic actually ends up recycled.
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Recycling is Canada's dirty little secret.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/fifth...ling-1.6410657
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The federal government has privately sanctioned several Canadian recycling companies for shipping illegal, unsorted household trash to developing countries, but is keeping the list of names of those caught violating environmental and international laws secret from the public.
A Fifth Estate/Enquête investigation has found that at least 123 shipping containers have been returned to Canada in the past five years after foreign authorities discovered numerous violations of international waste export regulations aimed at stopping Western countries from dumping their trash in developing countries.
"We can't make those names public," Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault said in an interview with The Fifth Estate.
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https://openparliament.ca/votes/43-2/128/
That vote and party alignment is you all you need to know about the recycling industry and who favours it.
But they put a blanket ban on single use plastics to woo the crowds. Also, since these containers are shipping out of Canada and not being burned or 'recycled' here, no carbon footprint, score one for the good guys.