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ehnto 2 days ago

Japan is wild for this, but also pretty good at recycling plastic in general.

Bananas are often wrapped individually for sale. You buy a box of biscuits and they're often individually wrapped in plastic etc.

gleenn 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Japan recycles but also a whole bunch of their waste is incinerated. I think they super-heat it to reduce emissions but guessing that also costs energy which also secondarily causes emissions.

adastra22 2 days ago | parent [-]

It is energy positive. Their incineration plants provide power.

scheme271 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Most of that plastic can't be recycled so it's probably being burned or thrown away.

adastra22 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Japan incinerates most of their plastic.