Former Employees Reveal 30 Company Secrets Customers Want To Know

25. When Recycling Is Just Trash

This Redditor outed a trash company for mixing regular trash with recycling, a brutal secret considering people pay extra to recycle.

“I have worked for a recycler and know others who work in waste management. Most of your recycling is sent to the dump. A lot of people mix trash and plastic bags in with their recycling, and now that most places mix all recycling into one bin, it makes it worse. Once a batch of recycling is considered contaminated, the whole thing is sent to the dump. Plastic isn’t nearly as recyclable as the bottle says it is.” – via u/Gearhead_Jerry

It seems better to avoid plastic altogether, knowing that our waste isn’t truly recycled. Nowadays, it’s easier than ever to find natural alternatives to plastic, such as bamboo, as opposed to ones that claim to be recyclable (via CNBC).