{"id":2228,"date":"2022-07-02T23:55:30","date_gmt":"2022-07-02T23:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2022\/07\/02\/how-much-of-our-plastic-recycling-is-actually-recycled\/"},"modified":"2022-07-02T23:55:30","modified_gmt":"2022-07-02T23:55:30","slug":"how-much-of-our-plastic-recycling-is-actually-recycled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=2228","title":{"rendered":"How much of our plastic &#8216;recycling&#8217; is actually recycled?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">About 11 million tonnes of plastic waste flows into the ocean each year, according to the UN.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">On International Plastic Bag Free Day, population correspondent Stephanie Hegarty asks how effective efforts are to recycle plastic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">She finds that even in countries where a large amount of plastic waste is collected, only part of it is actually recycled. Some may be shipped to a developing country, where it meets an unknown fate. Some &#8211; in Germany, for example &#8211; may be incinerated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">And when a plastic bottle is recycled it may be turned into products such as food trays or fabrics that are much less likely to be recycled at the end of their lives.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-62013030?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] About 11 million tonnes of plastic waste flows into the ocean each year, according to the UN. On International Plastic Bag Free Day, population correspondent Stephanie Hegarty asks how &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}