My office has a big bin for recycling coffee pods (van houtte, keurig…) wondering how they get recycled? Thanks
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In practice: They end up in the same landfill as everything else being thrown away, but in a way that lets people feel less guilty about disposable single use plastics.
A **lot** of recycling is an outright lie to put the burden of disposal of waste due to manufacturer choices on the consumer and then give the consumer a way to feel better about all this waste.
For a long time these things were shipped to developing countries “for processing”, but it turned out that meant “dumping in unregulated landfills”. As these developing countries clamp down on being used as a dumping ground we’ve seen recycling programs in developing countries scale back and even stop because they don’t have anywhere to send the “recycling”.
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