Mixed waste sorting to vastly reduce the burning of plastics by 2025.

This event organised by Extinction Rebellion Zero Waste (XR Zero Waste) on April 28 provided an overview of the potential for sorting and recovery of materials from residual (black bag) waste for recycling, so as to sharply reduce the need for incineration and landfilling, while we still are stuck with too much black bag waste. Residual mixed waste sorting facilities effectively separate out wastes into single streams and compress them into bales to ship these to recycling plants, including bales of plastics, metals and drink cartons. They are instrumental because they can be built in a just a few years and can reduce the burning of plastics by more than 70% by 2025, so as to swiftly end the burning of nearly all plastics and enable their recycling.