Is recycling a myth? A journalist tracked what happened to a shopping bag when it was thrown away. The results were a big surprise. What's happening? Plastic bags are hard to recycle. But one shop hopes to recycle as many bags as possible. But an experiment shows it might not be as useful as we think. Find out more Kit Chellel is a journalist. He wanted to find out what happens to plastic when it goes to be recycled. He put a tiny tracker in his shopping bag. He dropped it off in a Tesco shop in London. The plastic bag travelled a long way. First, it went to a port in Essex. Soon, it was in Europe. It ended up in Turkey. Nobody knows what happened to the bag in the end. Experts fear that it might not have been recycled at all. Some people have found piles of burning plastic nearby. Is recycling a myth? Some say Yes! When we put our rubbish in a bin, we do not think about where it goes. Recycling is much messier than we think. Others think No. Recycling does happen. We buy recycled products all the time! Today is Earth Day. We must not give up hope! KeywordsJournalist - Somebody who writes about the latest news for newspapers and magazines or explains the news on television.
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Journalist - Somebody who writes about the latest news for newspapers and magazines or explains the news on television.
Tesco - Tesco launched the four Rs strategy in August 2019. The supermarket pledged to remove plastic where possible, reduce it where it could not remove it, reuse more and recycle what remained.
The life and death of a plastic bag
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Journalist - Somebody who writes about the latest news for newspapers and magazines or explains the news on television.
Tesco - Tesco launched the four Rs strategy in August 2019. The supermarket pledged to remove plastic where possible, reduce it where it could not remove it, reuse more and recycle what remained.