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A comment on Wave After Wave of Garbage Hits the Dominican Republic. Parent comment

Re:Wave After Wave of Garbage Hits the Dominican Republic by Spooky23 on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @12:37PM (#17602653)
Explain the benefit.
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Re:Wave After Wave of Garbage Hits the Dominican Republic by gfo on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @02:01PM (#17603486)
Straws are too small to be processed by recycling facilities. They just get tossed.

Even if the Starbucks lids are larger, they can be recycled because they can be caught by the recyclers.

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