For context I live in the UK but I guess it’s pretty much the same worldwide.
I live in a country with something like 65 million people and around 20 million households.
We get recycling and non recycling collected separately every other week.
I imagine over a two week period most people easily fill their waste bin. I normally can squeeze in around 5 or 6 bin bags.
So that must mean around 140 million bin bags are dumped each fortnight or more. That is 3.5 billion bags a year!!
Where the hell does it all go?
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Incineration or landfill, which is why there is a big push for recycling as dealing with the trash is expensive, though it may be cheaper and more environmentally friendly to burn paper to generate electricity than to recycle it. https://youtu.be/WOpkew6V-Lk
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