John Oliver bus unveiled some of the biggest myths about recycling this weekend, noting that many of the everyday plastics that people use are mostly recyclable. of places.
The guest said “Last Week Tonight” while plastic production is on the rise, less than 9 percent of U.S. plastics are recycled. But that didn’t stop people from recycling the rest.
Non-recyclable items come up in recycling bins so often that waste managers have a name for it: desire cycling, or things that people just want to be recycled but can’t.
“The term cycling desire is just too good to be spent on trash,” Oliver said. “Desire cycling is like a unicorn-taught spinning class, or Hogwarts ‘sewage treatment system:’ This is, kids, where we’d like to cycle all the collected urine into this delicious butterfly. ‘”
Oliver looked at what happens to recyclables as well as what happens to the other 91 per cent of plastics. There is also an “awesome goat hybrid”:
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