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If you recycle then it's probably just going to a street or ocean somewhere else. Plastic recycling is more or less made up.

• eptcyka 1y ago
  They could go into a furnace to get turned into heat, electricity and CO2.
  • alkyon 1y ago
    In theory yes, in practice they will be "exported" to a thrid world country with limited processing capabilities and directly dumped into the ocean.