Companies whose futures depend on plastic production are trying to persuade the federal government to allow them to put the label “recyclable” on plastic shopping bags and other items virtually guaranteed to end up in landfills and incinerators.
A friend of mine works in a garbage burning facility that is used to heat a part of the city. He told me that the more the garbage is separated, the less it burns and they still have to fulfill a quota. So they throw in a lot of glass and other things.
A friend of mine works in a garbage burning facility that is used to heat a part of the city. He told me that the more the garbage is separated, the less it burns and they still have to fulfill a quota. So they throw in a lot of glass and other things.