Recycling (Cont’d from Page 5) and is extremely difficult to collect — as becomes clear during what the report called ineffective “vol- unteer cleanup stunts” funded by nonprofits such as “Keep America Beautiful.” Second, even if it were all collected, mixed plastic waste cannot be recycled together, and it would be “functionally impossible to sort the trillions of piec- es of consumer plastic waste produced each year,” the report said. Third, the recycling process itself is environmen- tally harmful, exposing workers to toxic chemicals and itself generating microplastics. Fourth, recycled plastic carries toxicity risks through contamination with other plastic types in collection bins, preventing it from becoming food- grade material again. Fifth and finally, the process of recycling is pro- hibitively expensive.
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