Marketplace journalists go undercover overseas and pose as recycling brokers to expose the lucrative plastic recycling business. We reveal that Malaysian companies are willing to break the law to buy Canadian plastic and show how some of it is dumped and burned in illegal landfills, where the toxic fumes and run- off appear to be making people sick. Back in Canada, we buy nine tonnes of plastic and secretly track where big companies are taking it. Will it actually get recycled? Click for Full Text!
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I defy you to watch this whole 20-minute segment. Let us know how far you get.
Especially wrenching because Malaysia has come so far from so much trouble and woe -- race riots, the conflict with Indonesia etc. How does the first world reward its progress to resemble ourselves more? By making it our illegal garbage burning dump of course, leading to little brown people's 'cancer villages'.
In the eighth minute, the hellish issue of materials that can't be recycled any further. What are recyclers supposed to do withem?
Is simply throwing it in the trash to be hauled to your local all-ameriKan dump for the rest of time the best solution after all?