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Recycling threads, recycled:

Oil Companies Touted Recycling to Sell More Plastic - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24454067 - Sept 2020 (232 comments)

How Big Oil Misled the Public into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24441979 - Sept 2020 (313 comments)

Pringles tube tries to wake from 'recycling nightmare' - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24440516 - Sept 2020 (395 comments)

Plastics pile up as coronavirus hits Asia recyclers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23040674 - May 2020 (19 comments)

'Horrible hybrids': the plastic products that give recyclers nightmares - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22927072 - April 2020 (40 comments)

Industry spent millions selling recycling, to sell more plastic - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22741635 - March 2020 (105 comments)

Coke and Pepsi are getting sued for lying about recycling - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22467015 - March 2020 (170 comments)

Is Recycling a Waste of Time? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22318165 - Feb 2020 (94 comments)

Recycling Rethink: What to Do with Trash Now China Won’t Take It - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21837414 - Dec 2019 (152 comments)

The Great Recycling Con [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21742196 - Dec 2019 (77 comments)

How Coca-Cola Undermines Plastic Recycling Efforts - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21303618 - Oct 2019 (132 comments)

All plastic waste could be recycled into new plastic: researchers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21297639 - Oct 2019 (150 comments)

We asked three companies to recycle plastic and only one did - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21102560 - Sept 2019 (64 comments)

Exposing the Myth of Plastic Recycling - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21043986 - Sept 2019 (17 comments)

Plastics: What's Recyclable, What Becomes Trash and Why - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20762789 - Aug 2019 (215 comments)

Smart plastic incineration posited as solution to global recycling crisis - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20728911 - Aug 2019 (84 comments)

'Plastic recycling is a myth': what really happens to your rubbish - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20726689 - Aug 2019 (63 comments)

Americans' plastic recycling is dumped in landfills - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20549804 - July 2019 (282 comments)

Landfill is underrated and recycling overrated - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20433851 - July 2019 (336 comments)

I work in the environmental movement. I don’t care if you recycle - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20134641 - June 2019 (15 comments)

Why Recycling Doesn't Work - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19889365 - May 2019 (216 comments)

Reycling Plastic from the Inside Out - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19844551 - May 2019 (46 comments)

Bikes, bowling balls, and the balancing act that is modern recycling (2015) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19799348 - May 2019 (35 comments)

Just 10% of U.S. plastic gets recycled. A new kind of plastic could change that - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19728391 - April 2019 (116 comments)

America Finally Admits Recycling Doesn’t Work - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19483074 - March 2019 (35 comments)

The World's Recycling Is in Chaos. Here's What Has to Happen - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19399543 - March 2019 (25 comments)

What Happens Now That China Won't Take U.S. Recycling - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19346342 - March 2019 (219 comments)

The Era of Easy Recycling May Be Coming to an End - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18893252 - Jan 2019 (84 comments)

Recycling in the United States is in serious trouble. How does it work? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17841584 - Aug 2018 (94 comments)

Trash piles up in US as China closes door to recycling - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17677698 - Aug 2018 (272 comments)

Californians love to recycle, but it's no longer doing any good - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17495872 - July 2018 (14 comments)

Plastic recycling is a problem consumers can't solve - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17409152 - June 2018 (441 comments)

An enzyme that digests plastic could boost recycling - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16856246 - April 2018 (122 comments)

Plastics Pile Up as China Refuses to Take the West’s Recycling - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16174719 - Jan 2018 (71 comments)

Recycling Chaos in U.S. As China Bans 'Foreign Waste' - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15888827 - Dec 2017 (233 comments)

China Bans Foreign Waste – What Will Happen to the World's Recycling? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15528740 - Oct 2017 (63 comments)

Is it time to rethink recycling? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11083898 - Feb 2016 (147 comments)

The Reign of Recycling - https://archive.is/o8LBm - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10327585 - Oct 2015 (34 comments)

Recycling is Garbage (1996) - https://archive.is/JKG7y - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9757853 - June 2015 (55 comments)

Is Recycling Worth It? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7778956 - May 2014 (13 comments)

Recycling is Bullshit; Make Nov. 15 Zero Waste Day, not America Recycles Day - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1186666 - March 2010 (18 comments)

The Recycling Myth - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=937097 - Nov 2009 (36 comments)



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