Cups tossed in recycling bins at Massachusetts Starbucks tracked to incinerators, Alabama landfill

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1. CBS News spoke with Jan Dell, an anti-plastic activist who has worked with companies in 45 countries to develop climate resilient practices.

   “Think of all the carbon emissions to like truck. This piece of waste, this little thing that that a consumer enjoys for maybe ten minutes all the way down to a different state and then dump it there to be there forever,” Dell said.

   She added, “the real problem that Starbucks has is the in-store bins telling every consumer who walks in these plastic cups are recyclable… put it in here and it’ll get recycled.”

2. Almost all recycling is BS, there was a recycling episode on Penn and Teller’s Bullsh*t! series.

3. So much “wishful recycling” and greenwashing. Information is the most scarce resource.

4. paper, metal, and glass are really the only things that actually get recycled even when you put them in the recycling bin, and it gets sent to the recycler.

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