Most of US recyclable are handled, for a fee, by Chinese companies. Recently the Cocos (Keeling) Islands were dicovered to be covered in plastis waste

just move the rubbish around

China has stopped taking it in Australia. There is a black market in recyclables in some other Asain nation (Indonesia?) and the govt is pissed at us. Was on Sixty Minutes.

China has stopped buying recyclable plastics pretty well I think.

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqrlEsPoyJk]

what we do to our planet makes me physically ill.

They are

i thought they stopped accepting plastic recently

That's awful 💔

Shit. Really?