Recycling system has failed - Greenpeace's plastic bombshell

“At Greenpeace, we believe that recycling is a failed system.”

This is the bombshell Greenpeace public engagement campaigner Hema Sulakshana Mahadevan dropped to shatter the long-held notion that recycling is the answer to dealing with plastic waste.

“We are producing too much,” Hema explained, adding that “plastic production is growing out of control”.