We followed your curbside recycling with GPS trackers, drones and undercover cameras. Here’s where it ended up. 13 Investigates worked with local families to track their curbside recycling, utilizing both undercover surveillance and technology to follow recyclable materials.
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21 Comments
Just pay your fees and stop asking questions.
Way to go on this teach the people
One of my pet peeves: Seeing “trash” in a recycling bin.
Lol only 10% of plastics are recyclable . Youre story was bare bones and i cant believe this got 7 minutes. Almost believe WTHR is here to distract us from what really going on
PLASTIC👏BAGS👏ARE👏NOT👏CURBSIDE👏RECYCLABLE
Yeah
I tell my wife all the time. It matters what u throw in the recycle bin but she loves to argue
Do this in Chicago.
I heard AirTags are not recyclable 🙄
Happy New Year!
3:17 Plastic bags are not recyclable…
Thanks for looking into this a few months ago. Since the recycle bins have been taken away from public areas, I wanted someone in local news to look into it. I don’t want to pay for curbside recycling that is not recycled!
This does go to show that we all need to pay attention to what we put in our recycle bin. There were so many residents where I live that chose to ignore the rule and everyone got punished for it because of someone's stupidity. I know I am a mean guy by blocking people for jokes, but this is not funny at all.
Hoosiers. That’s a funny word. 🤭
Shows you republicans can't ve trusted wuth anything!
Just gos to show us; we can't trust republicans with anything!
Being recycled and being processed are two different things. Most of those plastic bales will end up somewhere in Southeast Asia, and there is a slim chance any of it will actually be recycled.
We have a separate can for throwing recyclable plastic at our work stations at work. I've never seen anyone put that anywhere but the garbage bin. I still use it as it was intended, most others just use it as a second garbage can. I figure eventually I'll give up also.
Who cares where it goes and who makes a profit off of it. You put it in the bin for the city to pick up. If your offended then maybe you should recycle your glass and plastics yourself. Then you can make the profit. Geez…..🤦
Recycling is such a great business model. They get their materials for free 😂
Amazing that they can absorb the cost of 30% loss, in addition to the cost of dumping the trash.