Bookmarked ‘Plastic recycling is a myth’: what really happens to your rubbish? (the Guardian)

You sort your recycling, leave it to be collected – and then what? From councils burning the lot to foreign landfill sites overflowing with British rubbish, Oliver Franklin-Wallis reports on a global waste crisis

Oliver Franklin-Wallis discusses the current global recycling crisis. Just like the argument around reducing flying, we need to systemically review our use of plastics in the aisles of our supermarkets.