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Remembered it's the local "plastic packaging trash collection day".
Checked for sleeping geckos before slipping on shoes.
Hauled out 20L monthly bag of plastic waste to collection point.
0.7L/day of wrappers, egg-cartons, etc...way too much plastic.
Seems that about 60% gets "thermally recycled" i.e. burnt for power generation; only 21% gets materially recycled, but 3/4 of that is exported.
Doesn't seem sustainable.
https://www.pwmi.or.jp/ei/siryo/ei/ei_pdf/ei52.pdf
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