Then that waste stream doesn’t count. That’s why I had to be specific about the goodness of well-designed landfills.
On the flip side, a lot of recycled plastic gets shipped elsewhere, and ends up just getting dumped in a low-quality landfill if it’s not valuable enough to actually bother recycling, so recycling isn’t a guaranteed fix to the issue either. If you care, you just have to look up your municipality’s waste stream practices in detail.
Then that waste stream doesn’t count. That’s why I had to be specific about the goodness of well-designed landfills.
On the flip side, a lot of recycled plastic gets shipped elsewhere, and ends up just getting dumped in a low-quality landfill if it’s not valuable enough to actually bother recycling, so recycling isn’t a guaranteed fix to the issue either. If you care, you just have to look up your municipality’s waste stream practices in detail.