Tracking Your Plastic: Exposing Recycling Myths (Marketplace Video)
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Marketplace journalists go undercover overseas and pose as recycling brokers to expose the lucrative plastic recycling business. We reveal that Malaysian companies are willing to break the law to buy Canadian plastic and show how some of it is dumped and burned in illegal landfills, where the toxic fumes and run-off appear to be making people sick. Back in Canada, we buy nine tonnes of plastic and secretly track where big companies are taking it. Will it actually get recycled?
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Video Source: CNC News on YouTube
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http://www.youtube.com/embed/c8aVYb-a7UwMedia
Taxonomy
- Recycling
- Design & Disposal
- Packaging
- Recycling Services
- Recycling & Disposal
- plastic pollution
- plastic debris
- Plastic Ban
- Beat Plastic Pollution
- Plastic waste
- Plastic footprint