Exposing Australia s recycling lie

There is no doubt Australia is one of the most wasteful nations in the world so the practice of recycling helps to lessen our guilt As we drag our bins out for collection each week we feel like we re helping the environment But the reality is that we re all being conned Right now Australia is stuck in an unsightly and worsening recycling crisis What is being done with plastic waste the material most people think would be easy to salvage and re-use is of the greatest concern As Liam Bartlett discovers most of it ends up either being buried or worse exported to countries like Malaysia a place we are now treating like a garbage bin

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