Why not not focus on building more and better landfills then? Seems like a better solution that shipping trash long distances to other countries only to have it end up in the ocean.
We don’t ship our “trash”, distinguished from our recycling, to other countries.
Nah, the vast majority is trash to begin with or ends up as trash. Only a fraction ends up recycled.
Plastic bags don’t go in the recycling, they go in the trash bin.
It's not a matter of any one thing, the vast majority of "recycling" is trash to begin with, or ends as trash without being recycled.
That’s the goal. You want them to end up as trash. It’s not cost effective to recycle it, and if it were, that would lower costs and create more pollution.