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I don't recycle, when I get paid to recycle then I will, but intill then it all goes into the trash can.
Dang! 👏 A) great journalism
B) Shame on these companies for pretending to recycle then clearly not doing so. Why did they do it? Just for an illusion of… what???
C) I'm feeling pretty good about always using reusable bags, or utilizing them for bathroom garbage trash bags. At least I was aware ahead of time where they were heading.
D) screw the 'big guys' who make all these kinds of decisions to pretend to recycle, and not the good kind of screw either.
Excellent reporting. Way to stay on that greasy American Chemistry Council VP and his weak arguments. 👍
Amnesty for Anchor’s who never use Plastic Products Ratting out to look 👀 innocent
Everybody’s Guilty
I was told at my local key food that they just toss those bags in the trash
Our city, Surprise Arizona has stopped recycling programs…. So now it’s just all trash. Separating plastics is just not economical to the city anymore. The Phoenix Valley is a huge area.. so now what??
https://youtu.be/pqX1D5AQFfo
Juese Gastonia NC showed up a few times in that map. Hate to tell you but if its in NC it's being buried in the landfill not recycled
The whole charade of today's economics is maximize to death the disposability of everything so to keep the relentless production process. Sometimes it's not even a one-off as I see unopened bottles of beverage going straight to garbage bin.
Big plastic has already been exposed as knowing full well that recycling plastic would never work. We can switch back to truly recyclable containers. Fabric bags, netted bags for produce can be carried into stores making plastic bags unnecessary. Our coop stopped providing plastic bags for the bins. Granola can go in a fabric or paper bag until at home it’s put into a big glass jar. It doesn’t take that long to condition oneself to always bring your own bags into any store.
Just more greenwashing like always.
You father enough bags together, you can put them in a pillow case to use as a pillow. May have a little crunchy sound, but your head won't be on laying on a flat surface.
Stop buying items sold in plastic, opt for other options, manfctr. Will eventually change their packaging
Stores out west charge 10cents per brown paper, and the plastic ones are gone all together….
Simple, do your part, STOP using the plastic bags, use reusable bags only
I roadtripped along the gulf coast, i dont think i saw a single recycle bin… seriously
Why can’t a system be put in place like in most European countries. There you PAY extra if you need plastic bags for your groceries. Most people bring their OWN Bags for groceries etc. It encourages responsibility by consumers to reduce the use of plastic bags. Such a common sense and easy solution to implement. Just takes a bit of backbone by each State’s legislators.
Reporter, please show is a company who has mastered manufacturing a
viable Product made of Non-Virgin Plastic. Please show us a Research University that has found a workable process to produce goods out of used plastic.
This is disappointing. All local Wal Marts have large cardboard boxes for plastic bag recycling. The signs say to put any type of bag in the box even non-Wal Mart ones. They are shredded and made in to new bags. So the signs said. When I last worked at a Wal Mart Supercenter, there were huge plastic bags that were wrapped in products like furniture. These bags were collected in the back and once a month, a "plastic bale" was made in a compression unit just as we did with all the cardboard waste. I never dealt with the plastic bags out front. A third party collected those. But I now question where that plastic bale went to and where the plastic bags I dropped in to the box at Wal Mart goes. I have had people tell me for years that plastic recycling is a con. I resisted because the alternative was that the plastic went to a landfill. Turns out, the plastic bags I dropped in that box at Wal Mart IS just going to a landfill. George Carlin was right. Humans suck.
I see several problems here. First off, the interviewer being so argumentative and combative was not helping anything. Second, we learn early on that third parties are contracted to pick up and drop off this material between the collection points and the recycling points. Seems to me like this is where a lot of this material is getting lost. They are getting paid to pick it up and deliver it, But they are just taking that stuff to the landfill instead of delivering it where they’re supposed to deliver it because there’s no accountability in the system. That’s the bottom line. At the end of the day, it’s always about the money.
The US is too focused on $$$$ at all times, if there's no profit to be had, they aren't interested. Stores should be refusing to use or offer single -use plastic bags and force people to bring or buy reusable bags. People will grumble and bitch, but they'll get over it and adapt. I saw this saying:
When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can’t eat money.
Truer words were never spoken.
Typical Americans, they don't even understand the meaning of recycling just like they don't know what a woman is😂😂😂
Gutman's suit is NOT polyester. This guy couldn't defend WRAP's false and misleading claims so he slips off and returns to stand, imposing his baseless claims physically since he had no proof to do so, sitting down and looking at him man to man, eye to eye. Pathetic.
This was an interesting bit of information. Living in Washington which is a pretty big recycling State there are Ben's in grocery stores and other retail stores to bring in your plastic bags and recycle them.
Living in Washington state when you go to the grocery store there are no plastic bags. You have to bring your own. They heavy duty plastic bags that some retailers were using and grocery stores cost $0.08 and you could actually wash them I never tried doing that but that's what it said on the bag. I found other uses for those plastic bags.
As someone who tries to recycle just about everything, this breaks my heart 😢 I actually make an even bigger effort to collect all of the plastic bags we use in our house and walk them to Publix to deposit them in the plastic bags recyclable drop off bins..where I have always assumed they would be turned into new products and keep them from landfills. This is a sham played on us by the people we buy products from, who all need to take responsibility for the trash they created.
Just stop pretending plastic is recyclable. Throw it away and dispose of it properly like we do with other garbage.
We will never recycle our way out of our plastic problems.
This is the type of reporting we need in USA, not stoking the flames of a cultural war. Expose these liars for what they are.
Thanks for confirming everything we already knew.
Everything is a money grab with no benefit to the planet or any of us
I worked in waste disposal and all plastic goes into landfills.
Recycling is basically a lie – not because its a bad idea, but because its not profitable, likely because there is only a limited demand for it.
The $0.10 fee for plastic bags is just another tax on your dumbasses
Please change the loud ending at the end of all these videos!
The flexible plastic film industry needs to be regulated and taxed for the impact on the environment. If they paid the true cost it wouldn't be cheaper. It's ruining the environment for everyone and the all future generations. If the true cost was included as RFK Jr has mentioned as well as others more sustainable options could compete. It's not free market when the environment is pushed out of the way by corrupt corporate government cronyism.
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Love this reporter! Way to push back!!!!
What Do We, American citizens and the Republications in office need to do to KICK OUT/Sequester President Biden, VP Harris, WH Democrats, FBI, DOJ, CIA and the Military – ASAP!!! WHAT can we do as citizens, Americans of the USA to take back our country RIGHT NOW? Is there a BIGGER, BADDER GUY OR GROUP hidden, somewhere out there….like a “The Imperial Wizard,”that is tucked away somewhere for just this kind of Betrayal of our USA Government?!
Again, I want to know where these 36% of Americans (a poll showed two weeks ago) that are still supporting President Biden and the WH Democrats. We know most of the 36% are in the “Blue States,”and am sure some are scattered throughout. We, true Americans that love our country for it’s freedom of speech, religion, education, and the select Americans that are farmers – that produce our food source, etc.
FIND THAT Imperial Wizard; FIND those groups that are for the people like, The Muskeers and/or Robin Hoods that work behind the scene (I know they are in hiding, waiting for that command).