For months, the I-Team and ABC news tracked plastic bags that we dropped off at store recycling bins around the country and several ended up in landfills or incinerators.
You can't put plastic bags in regular recycling bins or they'll get stuck in machines at recycling facilities.
At the end of January, we dropped off our four bags in the city and suburbs. We monitored the movements and locations for months via the trackers glued inside. A Target spokesperson says "Our intention is to make it easy for our guests to recycle clean and empty plastic bags and packaging in our stores. Last year, we recycled nearly 24 million pounds of plastic bags and plastic film materials," and added, "We're committed to looking at our processes to improve our recycling efforts."
Walmart said its helped remove more than 2 billion single use bags from circulation and, "We are also pursuing initiatives to reduce the use of single-use plastic including plastic bags, and working with policy makers, waste management companies, non-profits and other retailers to reduce demand for single-use plastic bags."
"People should keep recycling their metal, their glass, their paper. But plastic recycling has been an abysmal failure," Judith Enk, president of Beyond Plastics and a former EPA Regional Administrator, told ABC News.
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