Same old same old. Just like we have the lowest CO2 emissions, but we have to ruin our economies to reduce them even more, while the big emitters do as they please.

The "have nots" are beyond help, especially now that the "haves" are accused, non-stop, of neo-colonialism, racism, and every other ism. It's time for the West to attend to its own business and leave the rest to themselves

I would have thought that your post is showing that the Africans and Asians are dirty, polluting buggers who dump their rubbish into rivers which empty into the sea? How is that the fault of the west?

Another Critical Race Theory man. Blame the white guys for everything.

Almost anything can be recycled if the energy required is truly affordable! And that ain't coal-fired power! Nor power supplied by foreign nationals nor incompetent and possibly corrupt state governments looking after themselves and money-hungry cronies!? Who use our (price gouged) power systems as their personal ATMs to fill gaping fiscal gaps, created by incompetence? Or much of the foregoing?

If we cannot get truly affordable energy!? Then we cannot afford to recycle all that we could actually recycle, creating large pockets of regional and rural prosperity as part and parcel of such projects.
And minus money churning subsidies that end up costing someone somewhere the unmentionable, deleted expletive, earth!

If you will not continence SAFE, CLEAN, AFFORDABLE, RELIABLE, DISPATCHABLE MSR thorium nuclear power, owned and operated by various co-ops? Then just shelve unsubsidized profitable recycling projects until you do/will/can!
Alan B.

Oh Dear it is all so depressing. Even if all scientists announced
that we had it all wrong and CO2 has almost no effect on temperature,
the demand for co2 suppression would continue and more COPnnn conferences
would be held. It all has its own momentum.
Not until maintenance starts to fail would financial stringency force
the cancellation of subsidies and subsequently less maintenance will
cause repeated daily load shedding.
As in network theory it will all suddenly collapse.

What's the bet that the greenies will blame the coal barons ?

Mining only works when you have a concentrated ore body. With recycling you could not have a more scattered ore body, & much of it is so contaminated it is basically worthless & useless.

We should save the huge amount of energy wasted on so called recycling, & stop pandering to the idealistic, but totally impractical greenies. Recycling is merely another of the schemes their leaders use as expensive red herrings designed to punish us for our living standards.

The best statement gleaned from this article is the fact that 90% of plastics/glass comes from 10 Asian rivers. Sweet fanny adams is being done there to manage this ( they don't care). So why the heck are we punishing ourselves over the other 10% in the West? WE try to recycle with recycling bins that raise our council rates, we must pay an extra 10c for a can of soda which can cost as little as 60c at aldi ( ie 10+ % increase). Sure we can collect it an drive many kms to the pay to recycle shops to recoup it... but its a real hassle, particularly when we could just put them in our recycling bins!

Sure we don't want waste, but when will the average citizen stop being the whipping boy for greenie "holier-than thou nazis".