Recycling as well. Most stuff like plastic can’t be easily recycled so they just ship it to China. It’s just cheaper to ship it offshore to be someone else’s problem.
This is a piece [1] 60 minutes Australia did, but all Western countries are doing the same thing.
That doesn't really happen anymore. China stopped accepting plastic waste because there was no economic way to recycle it, even using Chinese labor. The plastic industry talks a lot about recycling and even includes those helpful triangles on their products, but in reality the vast majority of plastics go straight to the dump, even when you wash them and separate them out into the blue bins.
But who is being deceitful? The company who marks their plastics for recycling as required by law? Or the governments who require people to spend time and effort separating their trash for recycling, and then just dump it all in the landfill instead of recycling it?
This is a piece [1] 60 minutes Australia did, but all Western countries are doing the same thing.
[1]https://youtu.be/lqrlEsPoyJk