Australians tried to attain the accurate thing by recycling but corporations shifted responsibility and set us up to failThe announcement by China earlier this year that they would no longer purchase Australia’s contaminated waste plunged the local recycling industry into a crisis from which it has yet to recover. But the consequences for public trust might be even more severe. Related: 'crazy marketing': Coles Little Shop for children undercuts plastic bag ban, critics say McDonalds and Coca-Cola together produced almost one in five nonsense items dumped in Victoria in 2013. Related: Hidden in plain sight: what the recycling crisis really looks like Recycling plastic is to saving the Earth what hammering a nail is to halting a falling skyscraper. Related: The politics of quitting plastic: is it only a lifestyle option for the lucky few? | Stephanie Convery Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com