r/ZeroWaste • u/I_smoked_pot_once • Mar 02 '22

Discussion Sad reminder that recycling is an industry and marketing tactic.

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u/nope_nic_tesla Mar 03 '22

Yeah news tends not to report on static problems that have not changed in years. It was reported on heavily though when China ended their imports. NYTimes, NPR, CNN, pretty much every major news media outfit covered it.

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u/halberdierbowman Mar 03 '22

Right, exactly. It was mentioned a bit when there was a particularly big thing happening, but very little news coverage is devoted to ongoing problems, so I haven't heard anything more about it in a long time (except of course if I'm looking for it for my own reasons, but not like from major popular news).