A Plastic Bag’s 2,000-Mile Journey Shows the Messy Truth About Recycling
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Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-tesco-recycle-plastic-waste-pledge-falls-short/?srnd=green
Author(s): Kit Chellel and Wojciech Moskwa
When the British supermarket chain Tesco Plc first started collecting plastic bags and wrappers from customers to be recycled in March 2021, Caroline Ragueneau was thrilled. She was working as a retail assistant at a Tesco store in southwest England when the first white deposit boxes appeared, promising to turn what’s typically discarded back into something useful.