I had to check, and it looks like at least as far as plastic goes, in Finland it's sent to two domestic recycling plants, and everything they don't have the capacity to handle is shipped to Sweden's Site Zero in Motala (dunno where they go from there.)
But yeah, something like using shredded plastic for road surfacing definitely isn't what I'd call a sensible way to recycle the material. It's just adding an extra step before getting to "microplastic endocrine disruptors EVERYWHERE"
As someone with an autoimmune disorder, I'm honestly not all that sold on whether that's a good tradeoff.
Yay, you're not acutely dying of cancer, but now your body is attacking your internal organs and depending on how shitty your luck is, you can eg. look forward to liver and/or kidney transplants (possibly more than once, too)
Fun English facts: "apron" used to be "napron", but "a napron" was eventually incorrectly split into "an apron". Same with "adder" which used to be "naddre", and "umpire" which was "noumpere"
I had to check, and it looks like at least as far as plastic goes, in Finland it's sent to two domestic recycling plants, and everything they don't have the capacity to handle is shipped to Sweden's Site Zero in Motala (dunno where they go from there.)
But yeah, something like using shredded plastic for road surfacing definitely isn't what I'd call a sensible way to recycle the material. It's just adding an extra step before getting to "microplastic endocrine disruptors EVERYWHERE"