A new report by the environmental nonprofit Greenpeace finds that the vast majority of plastic waste produced by U.S. households is not recycled.
by the environmental nonprofit Greenpeace released on Monday finds that the vast majority of plastic waste produced by U.S. households is not recycled.
RAMSDEN: Exactly. So there are many difficulties that come along with plastics recycling and people are sending these off to be recycled and then they are sitting in recycling facilities across the country not being recycled or they're being incinerated or sent to landfills instead. START HERE: Yeah, I was going to say, what is the corporate responsibility here? Because it seems like you have corporations proudly, and until a few minutes ago I would have said responsibly, are putting on their packaging that this is a recyclable product. This is a No. 1 or No. 2. Do those mean anything, by the way, the No. 1 and No. 2?RAMSDEN: Well, what No. 1, No. 2 means is what type of plastic it is.
PHOTO: In this June 11, 2019, file photo, a conveyer belt moving flimsy and film plastic , destined for landfill, carries pieces of plastic sorted from the initial sort deck through Recologys Recycle Central in San Francisco, Calif.