Bloomberg Businessweek Weekend - April 1st, 2022
Bloomberg Businessweek
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Is It Just a Case We Have to Stop Using Our Plastic?
Two of three trackers made their way to poland. They both went to exactly the same place, which is a small town called galona gora close to the border with germany. The reason all this stuff gets sent to poland is, you know, quite simply, cost an. It is much much cheaper to dispose of plastic in poland than it is to do so in the uk. Or germany,. E labour is cheaper, land fill is cheaper and it's just a costs effective way for big retailers to get rid of their plastic. But of course, there's bethe environmental cost of shipping it there in the first place. So net, net
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