Amazon says its plastic packaging can be recycled. An investigation finds it usually isn't. | Grist
Amazon says its plastic packaging can be recycled. An investigation finds it usually isn't. | Grist
grist.org Amazon says its plastic packaging can be recycled. An investigation finds it usually isn't.
Trackers placed in 93 bundles of Amazon packaging marked for "store drop-off" recycling showed many of them were buried or burned.
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Not just Amazon. So much plastic waste is designated recyclable with caveats, caveats that the average consumer is not aware of and will not follow up on.
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