What really happens to plastic bags returned to store for recycling?
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- Does plastic bag recycling at stores like Target and Walmart really work? The ABC7 I-Team and ABC News launched an investigation to find out. FULL STORY: bit.ly/3Mus4J7
Better off reusing them as trash bags
Or making durable trash cans from them.
If you have a lot of flexible plastic wrap/film/bags, why not still commit to recycle it at these venues though, knowing now that it may or may not get recycled, since it frees up space in your already full garbage bin at home. It becomes someone else's responsibility and a free way to get rid of plastic bags that would end up as trash anyway.
Wish they'd do a story on recycling in general, to see if it actually matters anymore. This is just sad and a big lie. At least for recycling plastic!
some in receiving 3rd world countries turn plastic bags into PVC pipes
I was just getting ready to bring a bunch to a Walmart drop off bin and now I still feel bad about the bags. Wish we could figure this junk out.
I've seen plenty of store bag recycling bins being used by people as a garbage bin, with actual food in it and such. The recycling companies don't sort and clean the plastic. If there are any contaminants in the bundle then it all gets rejected from the recycling. The act of observing disturbs the observed. The tags aren't recyclable, at least not as "plastic bag waste," therefore the bin of plastic which included the tag got rejected for recycling and sent to a landfill.
Idk how I never seen that happen
I recycle plastic bags by using them to store trash.
Recycling is a joke.
Recycling has never been a joke. Now, recycling plastic....that's a joke!
@@tamarakurtz6690 no its all a joke
@@inthedarkwoods2022 Until they prove otherwise, (or you do) like they did here for plastic. It's not ALL a joke!
@@tamarakurtz6690 its a joke
@@inthedarkwoods2022to a clown, everything is a joke
We need to levy the true cost of the flexible plastic film industry. It's not cheaper to use these plastics. It's destroying the environment when more sustainable options exist. We need to end the corporate government cronyism.
I live in Texas now but in Islamabad, Pakistan they made a road using plastic bags
It's not good for marine life unfortunately
Home owners are fined if they do not recycle, yet this scam goes on behind your back. The same in UK and many other countries. Its a complete load of rubbish.
Couldn't be bothered- I use them for everything..
If you are crafty, you can turn plastic bags into reusable bags, I am currently crocheting one out of old walmart bags
This is just sad.
Ik
Recycling plastic bags is very difficult. Our factory has been producing degradable and recyclable plastic bags for 23 years. We hope that people can develop the habit of recycling plastic bags
I hate those plastic bags and I don't believe that they should have stopped using paper bags in the late 70s
I found it virtually impossible to get a straight answer by asking employees whether recyclables actually get recycled at any particular store.
Because they don't know either. They likely get loaded on a truck and sent back to a store distribution center where they are maybe picked up by a recycler (or trash hauler).
Ima give You a random one .. I worked for Starbucks, at the front of d store we would have to "recycle" soo carefully, every smallest thing.
Then afterwards we would take all d trash bags around the back n trow em all in one skip.
The same story for most of the other cooperations I worked for ..
Ohh and all the endless food waste in factory's/ restaurants/ shops, You wouldn't believe Your eyes.
I wish they would have added Jewel/Osco to their list. I rarely use plastic bags anymore. The
ones I have I keep using over and over again. It truly is a huge problem in all of our states.
I was surprised at Walmart, but there I take my own cloth bags.
What Walmarts? Didn't they all close last month?
@@BigMoTheBlackDragon They didn't all close.
I’m really disappointed why even bother recycling plastic bags if it’s not consistent
I reuse my plastic bags as much as possible.. I found out years ago my area doesn’t have plastic, paper and glass facilities.. I have found that these bags have other uses around the house and used to the point they are reduced in size.
no worries in time we will pay for all this bad habits we do and then we either die or find a solution :) as long as plastic companies make profit from creating instead of recycling surely in time their children will be blamed later on when they grow up. cant wait for that comment section and flying blame planes going all over
It’s a fact, most plastic is not being recycled. It doesn’t matter where you drop the bags off. It’s all ending up in landfills or in the ocean.
What happens when you go shopping with reusable non plastic bags? You leave the store with bags full of items wrapped in plastic!
I just started collecting bags to make plarn. It uses about 85% of the bag, but there’s still plastic waste left. I watched this in hopes that I would find out what the end result of actually recycled plastic bags is to see if the cut up plastic is still usable, or if dropping a bag of scraps will just mess things up for recyclers. While this hasn’t answered that question, it does kinda seem like it doesn’t matter either way!
Can you tell me about making plarn? I’m a big fiber artist and have only recently started hearing about it!
@@jessicagollan2535 so I’m not sure the original TikTok that I watched that first told me about it, but the video I found most useful was “How To Make a Plarn Bed Roll” on the FOX8 WBHP UA-cam channel. It walks you through making the plarn and turning it specifically into a mat/bedroll. I haven’t played around with thickness and other uses yet. But I do hope to make a reusable shopping bag out of shopping bags :)
Sounds like the metal detectors are selecting the trackers (not the bags) for landfill.
It's heartbreaking
Great job 👍🏽
i know right
Use them as bin liners
Millions have been sent to another country it's ridiculous.
I'm old enough to remember when policy makers (politicians) replaced paper bags with plastic bags to save the trees. Now when I shop at Walmarts in Colorado there are no plastic bags but they will sell me paper bags and stand bag and watch me bag my stuff. Progress!! 🤦🏻♂🤦🏻♂🙄🙄
Wow that's crazy! Companies are such liars!!
If you look at trex list of retailers participating in plastic bag/film recycle, you won't see walmart or target there. So it would be better, if such an experiment was held with the retailers that actually claimed to be participants.
I saw a video where mount Vernon Indiana they recycle plastic bags!
The stores/ staff are not trained/ could care less, in too many places.
Independent ACTion.
I at least love that he called bs/ called it a wrap- with leading by (SUUUCH SIMPLE) example; pack your own tiny bag!!! Avoid toxic plastics, Wherever necessary. They are a $cam: one costing us far too high a price.
J U S T S A Y N O T O P L A S T I C ! ! !
What a scam.
What a scam!
Did no one think that they saw there was something attached to the bag and they cannot recycle it? I have a friend who works in recycling they check the bags for contaminates if there are they are rejected and sent to trash.
They just said they don't have a metal detecting for the bags. No one is gonna open up the bags to see a small metal detector
Thats insane..i just puked
What a waste of money and plus batteries are not supposed to be in recycling bins
Can we use paper bags again? Big plastic lied to us all so they could profit.
The problem with plastic bags is they don't get recycled because they just get caught in the machinery at the recycling factories.
The problem is two fold. There is no market for the used bags short of maybe using them for energy by burning them. The other problem is like you say, they clog up the sorting machinery. The later is probably the real reason for the collection bins. Fool consumers into thinking they are helping but the real goal is to divert them away from the sorting machinery.
Intersting case trace who make compost decking told me that the bags are sent to a distribution center and than come tonthem to make the deck boards
I recycle plastic bottles with plastic bags
Go back to using Paper Bags. They're Biodegradable, unlike Plastic.
Next time I go to a local grocery store I will be asking for Paper Bags, which they also supply besides Plastic Bags.
rose, that's what i do. for a while here in austin you had to bring your own bags or you could ask for paper. i thought it was good but people got lazy and it was too much trouble for them. i am trying to do my part. i wish everyone would do at least one thing to help the environment every day...
Recycling is a joke
It's better to incinerate.
sure. because we need the hazardous,dangerous result of burnt plastic added to our pollution problem.
@@pattiannepascual exactly. when those dangerous chemicals go up into the sky...some people think it just disappears. i know better. i was raised in a refinery town where practically everyone worked for oil & gas companies. my brother died of lung cancer at 55, my sister at 50, my daddy @70, we have lots of cancers run in my family and not to mention all the asthma, copd and other breathing problems do to the fact that those chemical hot shots have de-regulated any & every safety measures to stop THEIR poisons that they are getting away with emitting for US to pay for...people just don't care!
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This is hard. But it very cleaver to come up with the AirTag 🪙idea 💡 to track these bags. I always wanted to know what they really doing with these bags. As long as it’s out my house to make space and keep the space clean. I’m fine whatever they do with it afterwards.