The U.S. does a terrible job at recycling its plastic waste. For a start, 69% of plastics used in the U.S. end up in landfills. Of the 31% left, the U.S. only has enough plants to recycle 8.4%. So what happens to the rest? Believe it or not, the U.S. exports them. Most of it went to China until the Chinese government banned them in 2018 because they contained too many contaminants.

Rather than going through the hard work of sorting them, Chinese recyclers just dumped them in landfills or the ocean. The government noticed and issued the ban. The U.S. realized it needed a new trashcan after China, so along with Canada, Australia, and South Korea, it turned to China’s neighbors — Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, and the Philippines to pick up China’s former job.

Altogether, these countries saw their plastic waste imports increase by 362%. Their recycling plants couldn’t handle all that waste, but their recyclers imported them anyway, only to dump them in landfills.

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DARK TRUTH About America’s Plastic Industry

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