After ExxonMobil, can you trust companies plastic recycling labels?

Get the Full StoryMany critics argue that consumers may see the recycling symbol and assume that a product is recyclable.

Plastic is a fast-growing segment of U.S. municipal solid waste, and most of it ends up in the environment. Just 9 of plastic collected in municipal solid waste was recycled as of 2018, the most recent year for which national data is available. The rest was burned in waste-to-energy plants or buried in landfills.

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