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by sacrosancty 1229 days ago
They must be recycling enough of it to recover their £30. They may dump the unrecyclable parts into the ocean, but nobody doubts there are unrecyclable things mixed in with it. It can't be 100% recycled.
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In this scenario they don't pay for the plastic. They receive £30 and a tonne of plastic.
To expand on this for anyone who doesn't quite follow, the government pays citizens £60 for recycling, which requires a certificate of proof, a citizen can give their plastic and £30 to a company for a certificate, but the company doesn't actually do the recycling.
> the government pays citizens £60 for recycling

The government might as well be part of such fraud too? What do they care, if the plastics is not actually recycled.

But if they cay say to the voters, "Now we're recycling all plastics", then, some more votes, they'll get, in the next elections? (Maybe just a few more votes, if most voters also don't care)