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by notpushkin 1214 days ago
Why don't they put non-reusable shoes back to recycle though?
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Because neither Dow nor the Singaporean government are interested in recycling them once they have been able to dump them in Indonesia? This appears to be just a greenwashing scheme which coincidentally reuses a small fraction of the garbage stream.
That would take actual resources.