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Re:Many of the clothes we donate to charity end up dumped in... by lotsofpulp on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @01:47PM (#28212703)
It also recently came out that much of the recyclable recycling was and/or is not being recycled anyway, so I doubt any education would have made a difference. I assume all the recycling efforts are simply for political purposes at this point.
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Re:Many of the clothes we donate to charity end up dumped in... by kube-system on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @01:56PM (#28212822)
It recently got coverage in popular media -- but those familiar with sanitation operations and secondhand materials markets know that recycling has been subject to market demands for those materials for its entire existence. Recycling has never operated outside of the realm of economics.

The reasons changes to recycling programs are slow are:

1. People don't pay attention anyway

2. If the price of plastics go way up 5 years from now, you'll never retrain people to recycle again

3. Recycled metals are still valuable

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