California Aims to Ban Recycling Symbols on Things That Aren’t Recyclable
The well-known three-arrows symbol doesn’t necessarily mean that a product is actually recyclable. A new bill would limit the products allowed to feature the mark.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.According to the American Chemical Society, bets are being placed on making recycling profitable, but that's still a long ways away.
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Recycling plastics may never be profitable, but should profit be our primary motivation? Shouldn’t the purpose of recycling be to divert plastics from landfills and the oceans? Wasteful packaging and throwaway plastics are major problem, and the government (i.e. taxpayers) should, both literally and figuratively, pick up the tab. 
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