Recycled packaging 'may end up in landfill'

[Still Waters]

You try to be virtuous, wiping the curdling yoghurt off a plastic pot, then putting it in the recycling bin.

Perhaps you envisage the pot eventually re-incarnated as a frisbee or maybe even a plastic bench.

But don’t rest easy. Your pot might get burned or buried in landfill, and you’d never know.

The National Audit Office (NAO) says over half of the packaging reported as recycled is actually being sent abroad to be processed.

As a result, it says, the government has little idea of whether the recyclables are getting turned into new products, buried in landfill or burned.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-44905576

[Piney]

Several municipalities in New Jersey have been caught dumping recyclables.........Guess where...

[itsnotoutthere]

Yes, makes one a tad disillusioned. 

Reminds me of the time our local authority shut down all the speed cameras in our area & after several months they discovered the accident rate had dropped significantly. (didn't stop the police from turning them back on tho') 

[hetrodoxly]

Yoghurt pots are notoriously difficult to recycle and were not generally worth the effort as the amount required to make a ton made it non profitable, in the days when China would take 'anything' and i mean anything they'd go there where peasants and kids would sit at the side of a river scraping the print off, a lot of people made obscene amounts of money for nothing more than arranging the filling of empty containers with our rubbish, ie containers that would have gone back to China empty, 'recycling' is a con and the most corrupt industry there is, i know of companies who manufacture goods to be recycled they're issued with what is known as 'tickets' that are used for reducing their taxes they also use it to claim they recycle and add the magic words 'green' 'eco friendly' etc, to their advertising.