Kansas City Star Garbage Journalism Offers Sketchy Recycling Reassurance

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Here's a note that could've been written by 12th & Oak . . .

"Many Kansas City metro residents are still not convinced that what put into their recycle bins ends up actually recycled. According to the Department of Public Works, this lack of confidence is one of the reasons why usage of recycling services has declined in recent years."

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Many Kansas City residents think their recycling goes to landfills, but here's what really happens

Many Kansas City metro residents are still not convinced that what put into their recycle bins ends up actually recycled. According to the Department of Public Works, this lack of confidence is one of the reasons why usage of recycling services has declined in recent years.

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Recycling plastic is practically impossible - and the problem is getting worse

The vast majority of plastic that people use, and in many cases put into blue recycling bins, is headed to landfills, or worse, according to a report from Greenpeace on the state of plastic recycling in the U.S.

Americans' plastic recycling is dumped in landfills, investigation shows

A sign on an upside-down dumpster spelled the end of Pearl Pai's long romance with plastics recycling. For years, Pai and her family generated almost no trash. She carefully washed, sorted and bagged hard-to-recycle items and drove them two towns over from her home in Berkeley, California, to the area's best recycling center.

At Least 85 Percent of U.S. Plastic Waste Went to Landfills in 2021

Of the 40 million tons of plastic waste generated in the United States last year, only five to six percent-or about two million tons-was recycled, according to a new report, conducted by the environmental groups Beyond Plastics and The Last Beach Cleanup. About 85 percent went to landfills, and ten percent was incinerated.

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