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Millions of UK tyres meant for recycling sent to furnaces in India (www.bbc.com)
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[–] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

No one living in the UK seriously expected anything else, we've had repeated scandals about recycling just being dumped in the landfill or shipped to a landfill in another country that its just kind of taken for granted that nothing we put in our recyling bins is actually recycled.