We asked 3 companies to recycle Canadian plastic and secretly tracked it. Only 1 company recycled the material

Waste Connections dumped it in landfill. GFL incinerated it. Merlin plastics recycled it.

Katie Pedersen, Eric Szeto, David Common and Luke Denne · CBC News · Posted: Sep 28, 2019 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: October 9

After several instances of Canadian plastic waste turning up overseas, Marketplace wanted to track the lifecycle of Canadian plastic. So we bought bales of film plastic ready for recycling, hid trackers inside them, and then re-inserted the plastic back into the recycling stream in British Columbia. (Eric Szeto/CBC)

Do you know where your recycling really goes after it's been picked up?

After several instances of Canadian plastic waste turning up overseas in places like the Philippines and Malaysia, CBC's Marketplace wanted to track the lifecycle of Canadian plastic.