| Comment | They do that when they run out of recycling capacity.
It's not great, but consider that most of the things marketed as recyclable are not really recyclable on any functional way anyway. Metal & glass are almost totally recyclable... paper yes, but a lot less so. Plastic is really only recyclable in that they can shred some of the vast, vast quantities of discarded plastic and use it as filler in low-quality new produce.
Recycling plastic and to some extent card, is really just a way to make people feel okay about their normal level of consumption. Because if people really did actually care about producing less waste, then big corps would lose a shit-load of revenue. For example, one way to make a huge impact on your footprint is to never drink juice from a plastic bottle or carton (including those plasticised cardboard cartons that pretend eco creds) again. Image Coca Cola's bottom line at that point, and imagine just exactly how much money they alone have to persuade you that it's okay to keep buying plastic shit as long as you put it in the blue bin instead of the black one, as if that's the be all and end all of recycling.
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