Pluralistic – Dow promised to recycle sneakers into playground surfaces, then dumped them in Indonesia

Dow Chemicals plastered Singapore with ads for its sneaker recycling program, promising to turn old shoes into playground tracks. But the shoes it collected in its “recycling” bins were illegally dumped in Indonesia. This isn’t an aberration: it’s how nearly all plastic recycling has always worked. By Cory Doctorow Pluralistic Plastic recycling’s origin story starts in 1973, when Exxon’s […]

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