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Interesting that plastic bottles that get accidentally shipped to India are still worth extracting and recycling.

> unmasked waste pickers sifted for metal cans or intact plastic bottles that could be sold

The plastic they burn is envelopes made of soft plastic that have been incorrectly sorted by the recycling process and bundled with paper that they do actually want.



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