alt Hacker NewsIt varies very widely indeed. In some countries it isn't a scam because it gets burned like Denmark but other than that majority of recycling just means shipping it to a landfill in a poor country that they promise to recycle.
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chpatrick • today at 8:54 AM
In Hungary it gets sorted out locally. We also recently implemented a bottle return system that (although it's annoying) produces clean stacks of PET, aluminium and glass, all of which are recyclable.
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nandomrumber • today at 7:54 AM
> because it gets burned
I wouldn’t really call that recycling.
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Well, it depends a lot on material.
Metals, especially aluminum, get widely recycled because it actually makes financial sense.
Plastics, well, you are probably better off burning them for electricity.