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In "canada" we've been packing our recycling onto barges and dumping them on the beaches of defenseless pacific island countries for years.
the imperial core even outsources its waste so it can blame the periphery for being more wasteful.
and this is on top of outsourcing production to places like China, and then blaming them for carbon emissions. Like Vijay Prashad said, "try to produce it in your own countries, and see your carbon emissions rise."
Oh nice so there's actually 100% no point in sorting the container recycling here? At work they make a big thing about sorting plastics properly, but the way my work does it versus the apartment down the street seems random; work puts tin cans and other metal right in with small plastics, whereas certain apartments separate plastic and metal. Does it all just go into the trash anyway?
I'm pretty sure tin cans are the exception, maybe glass too. Those can be recycled if the will is there. Idk if it actually is or not, but yeah, we've been caught dumping our recycling in other countries plenty of times. One even sent it back lol
Aluminum is extremely recyclable.
Usually corporations want you to sort the recycling because they will get charged a fee by the pickup company if they don't
Lol ours just don't take the bins sometimes if we don't