Disturbing new investigation reveals major problem with program touted by Walmart, Target: ‘It makes me furious’

Source: https://news.yahoo.com/disturbing-investigation-reveals-major-problem-103000365.html

Author: Laurelle Stelle

For years, the American Chemistry Council’s Wrap Recycling Action Program (WRAP) has encouraged shoppers to drop off their used plastic bags at Walmarts, Targets, and other public locations to be recycled. However, an investigation by ABC News recently revealed that few bags ever make it that far. What happened? ABC News placed 46 electronic trackers inside bundles of plastic bags which it dropped off at WRAP collection sites across the country, according to its report. It then traced where the bags went.