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How Big Oil Misled The Public Into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 2563" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/897692090/how-big-oil-misled-the-public-into-believing-plastic-would-be-recycled" target="_blank"><strong>How Big Oil Misled The Public Into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled - NPR</strong></a></p><p></p><p>Laura Leebrick, a manager at Rogue Disposal & Recycling in southern Oregon, is standing on the end of its landfill watching an avalanche of plastic trash pour out of a semitrailer: containers, bags, packaging, strawberry containers, yogurt cups.</p><p> </p><p>None of this plastic will be turned into new plastic things. All of it is buried.</p><p></p><p>"To me that felt like it was a betrayal of the public trust," she said. "I had been lying to people ... unwittingly."</p><p></p><p>Rogue, like most recycling companies, had been sending plastic trash to China, but when China shut its doors two years ago, Leebrick scoured the U.S. for buyers. She could find only someone who wanted white milk jugs. She sends the soda bottles to the state.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 2563, member: 1"] [URL='https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/897692090/how-big-oil-misled-the-public-into-believing-plastic-would-be-recycled'][B]How Big Oil Misled The Public Into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled - NPR[/B][/URL] Laura Leebrick, a manager at Rogue Disposal & Recycling in southern Oregon, is standing on the end of its landfill watching an avalanche of plastic trash pour out of a semitrailer: containers, bags, packaging, strawberry containers, yogurt cups. None of this plastic will be turned into new plastic things. All of it is buried. "To me that felt like it was a betrayal of the public trust," she said. "I had been lying to people ... unwittingly." Rogue, like most recycling companies, had been sending plastic trash to China, but when China shut its doors two years ago, Leebrick scoured the U.S. for buyers. She could find only someone who wanted white milk jugs. She sends the soda bottles to the state. [/QUOTE]
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