Does recycling help fight climate change?
The Climate Question
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Recycle Malasa
Malasia has become one of the key destinations for waste from around the world. When words spread that malasa is fast becoming a gold mine, more recycles started to jump in. How do they make money of thes rubbish? What are they paid to do? Well, from speaking to people underground, one facility would purchase and shed plastics into tiny sharps. Then you'll be transported to an facility to be melted down into recycle pallets then exported to manufacturing industry which wants cheap raw material. This is recycling. The word self suggests a loop, a cycle going round and round. But think of how most of the economy works. It's not a cycle at all. Means we
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