Working with ABC News and nine ABC stations we assembled bundles of recyclable plastic bags, each containing a tracking device to see if those bags are being recycled at all.
More and more cities, including Philadelphia, are banning plastic bags because of environmental dangers.The Action News investigative team assembled four bags with four AirTags glued securely inside to ping and track the locations.
"There are real questions whether all of that film plastic is actually sent to a recycling facility or whether it just winds up at incinerators and landfills," said Enck. It turns out our discovery wasn't an anomaly. Of the 46 total trackers the ABC News teams dropped at bins, 23 of them last pinged at landfills or trash incinerators.
In total, only four trackers dropped by our teams ended up at US facilities that recycle plastic bags.
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