Report Shows Plastic Bag Recycling Not Keeping Up with Generation and Disposal
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Californians Against Waste posted an article earlier this month that reports plastic bag recycling in 2009 and 2010 was less than 5% of the total amount of plastic bags generated. Even as recycling efforts have grown, overall production of plastic bags far outpaces those efforts. Worse still, plastic bags are a drain on the resources of cities and collection services, with disproportionately high costs to process a material that makes up small portion of the collected recyclables. Read the full article here: http://www.cawrecycles.org/whats_new/recycling_news/feb6_plasticbagrecycling_pressrelease
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