My year in plastic waste
My year in plastic waste
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05:19. Liam James | Saturday 28 December 2024 14:59 GMT. This year, I collected the plastic waste left behind from my groceries. The aim was to see how much plastic I would be leaving behind — and whether there was hope for any of it to be recycled and live on in the so-called circular economy.
Around half of what I gathered had to go straight into the general waste bin, most likely to be burned. The other half had a chance of being recycled — but the system is very far from perfect and has flaws which echo a worrying development in the global conversation about reducing plastic waste.
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