Uncontrolled Recycling
One of the challenges for sustainable recycling has been the flow of plastic material to unsophisticated recycling operations abroad, which generate pollutants and contaminate water in the course of recycling, or alternately, that instead of being recycled, such material is ending up in waste to energy plants lacking effective pollution controls. In 2012, 56 percent of worldwide plastic recovered was shipped to China, however, thanks to the 2010 Green