Basically recycling companies pay to export the waste to poor countries who simply dump or burn it instead of recycling it.
For this reason I avoid plastic and stick to cardboard, glass and aluminium. Fortunately plastic is extremely unfashionable in the UK right now and products are increasingly switching to card or aluminium instead.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/may/17/uk-plast...
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/may/16/uk-ewast...
https://www.greenpeace.org/africa/en/blogs/11125/africas-exp...
Basically recycling companies pay to export the waste to poor countries who simply dump or burn it instead of recycling it.
For this reason I avoid plastic and stick to cardboard, glass and aluminium. Fortunately plastic is extremely unfashionable in the UK right now and products are increasingly switching to card or aluminium instead.