Before we used to ship it to China, and when China banned exports, it triggered a massive crysis in UK recycling industry.
Maybe where you live, its different. But significant amount of western world plastic does end up in the environment. I personally involved volunteered to clean up forests from plastic in Europe.
But thats the whole problem, we have built an idiotic system for shipping plastic around the world. Now we export it to turkey from Uk:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-57680723
Before we used to ship it to China, and when China banned exports, it triggered a massive crysis in UK recycling industry.
Maybe where you live, its different. But significant amount of western world plastic does end up in the environment. I personally involved volunteered to clean up forests from plastic in Europe.