Community Pride of Charleston County

Charleston County's Adopt-A-Highway Organization

The Problem With “Recycling” Plastic…

For over 30 years now, the public has hoped with every bottle and strawberry container and yogurt cup that they thoughtfully put in those bins that that plastic was going to go on to a happy new life somewhere as something else. But the truth is that it's not, and it likely never has. Aside from a few soda bottles and containers like milk jugs, there are no markets for used plastic trash. It's not economically feasible to collect it, to sort it or to sell it. And new plastic is cheap, and it's easy to make. The science is showing now is that even in the best scenarios, plastic can only be recycled once or twice before the chemicals break down. To Learn more about the Problem with Plastic, go here https://storage.googleapis.com/planet4-usa-stateless/2024/12/f4ede4c9-greenpeace-report-circular-claims-fall-flat.pdf

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