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Your recycling actually gets recycled, right? Not always, says this report

A man on a boat collects plastic materials from dirty water in Dhaka, Bangladesh, April 17, 2019. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain   TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC15820905D0

Thousands of tonnes of this could be ending up in the world's waterways and oceans. Image: REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain

David Elliott
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