Dirty Diapers, Used Needles, and More: The Worst Things Americans Try to Recycle
by Maddie Stone on Earther, shared by Melissa Kirsch from Lifehacker on (#4ANAD)
Recycling is in trouble. There are many reasons for this, chief among them a string of new bans and restrictions on recycled goods set forth by China. But there's another, related reason why so much of what Americans try to recycle is now winding up at an incinerator or a landfill.