Use an AirTag to find out which recycling plant dumps plastic into a landfill

Most people buy an AirTab so they don’t lose their keys, purse, laptop… or pet. A Houston resident Used an AirTag to Track His Recyclable Plastic… And Found Out They Didn’t Recycle It.

Brandy Deason was curious about what happened to the recyclable plastic she threw into the plastic bin, so she put several Airtags in her trash bags.

Supposedly, that recyclable plastic was going to the Wright Waste Management (WWM) recycling plant, financed by the oil company Exxon, which boasted of having invented a method to recycle 90% of the plastic in Houston and Texas.

An AirTag that exposes environmental fraud

This citizen found out that his plastic was not going to the recycling plant, but to a private lot. The company did not allow the press to enter to check it, but CBS drones have recorded mountains of garbage almost four meters high.

The company responsible, Houston Recycling Collaboration (HRC), has excused itself, arguing that Cyclix International, a collaborating company, had not yet opened its recycling plant to treat this material.

Some journalists have had access to the plant, and have discovered that It is a large empty space, with no trace of machinery.according to informs Tom’s Hardware.

The project began two years ago, but it does not seem to have made any progress, even though many citizens believed they were already recycling their garbage.

Some call the project a “greenwashing” from the oil company ExxonMobil. This is the name given to the lies of many companies that present environmental projects or objectives that are then never carried out.

Experts have also criticized the method they are going to use to recycle.: heating plastic to a high temperature to melt it and create new plastics. The problem is that this is a process that requires fuel (from Exxon, of course), and is highly polluting.

A Airtag It is so small for a coin. But it can uncover scandals like the one This recycling plant that does not recycle.

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