The misleading accounting behind your ‘recycled’ plastic: A convoluted credit system allows companies to label virgin plastic as recycled. Here's how it works.

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The misleading accounting behind your ‘recycled’ plastic: A convoluted credit system allows companies to label virgin plastic as recycled. Here's how it works.

Nougat@fedia.io · 4 hours ago

TLDR

Recycling plastic produces a substance which is more easily burned as fuel than made into new products.

So companies can buy some of this substance from a plant that produces it from old plastic, set it on fire, and then claim that their products are some percentage recycled.