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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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The city of Calgary was active on reddit a year back aggressively thwarting this about its recycling, don't know how accurate that is.
That said, if we do have a gap, fine, lets focus on closing that gap- I don't personally think banning plastics is the way to go.