Who is in charge of consumer refuse "recycling" in many parts of #canada, including my town in #NewBrunswick?
Why it's none other than executives from many of the enormous conglomerates that create & distribute all the plastic packaging in the first place!
#loblaws, #sobeys, #metro, #mcDonalds, #pepsi, #coke, #procterAndGamble, #nestle, #rbi (#timHortons, #burgerKing, #popeyes) etc.
https://www.circularmaterials.ca/board/
No matter how many times I email them asking, they will not reveal what they're doing with all that collected plastic they're going to "recycle".
We already know that the vast majority of plastic to be recycled never is: it finds its way to places like #india:
https://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/the-passionate-eye/recycling-was-a-lie-a-big-lie-to-sell-more-plastic-industry-experts-say-1.5735618
But at the same time #cbc is perfectly happy to pretend along with the "big lie" they've uncovered by refusing to use any critical thinking when covering local implementations of these projects:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/city-of-saint-john-recycling-curb-side-pick-up-1.7177789
Sure, *our* landfill may have less shit in it, but it had to go *somewhere*, and that somewhere is NOT back into "the circular economy". It goes to pollute some distant shore, to affect some distant population, to ruin the lives of others. It's RACISM.
Pats on the back and kudos all around to us *resourceful #Canadians*.