He Airtag It is the locator device of Apple whose main function is to help the user to find other objects. Its small size means it can be carried in a wallet or on a keychain and ensures that if you lose it, you can easily recover it. But they can also have other uses, from spying on other people, something Apple has long been fighting against, to Uncover how taxpayers are being cheated by a city’s recycling system. This is what he has done Brandy Deasona ‘The James Bond of recycling’ According to local media and a Houston resident, who has discovered What happens to the plastic destined for recycling with a handful of Airtags.
According to US media, Deason is the climate justice coordinator for Air Alliance Houstona nonprofit organization dedicated to reducing the public health impacts of air pollution. The environmentalist was wary of a new program chemical recycling launched by the city and which can treat certain types of plastic that are usually difficult to process. Thus, Deason put in place 12 Airtag devices in as many garbage bags destined for the plastic container.
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Only 3 Of the 12 Airtags ended up in an authorized recycling plant, while the 9 The remaining ones did it in the one of a cardboard recycling company 32 kilometers from the city. According to the media, Wright Waste Management applied to operate as a plastic and solid waste recycler last year, but It has not yet been authorized.
Once his discovery was known, Deason went to the plant with a team from CBS News and Inside Climate News. Using a drone, they saw how it had piles of plastic waste more than 3 meters high. As he explained to them Mark Wilfalkthe main responsible for solid waste in Houston, plastic had been piling up at the Wright Waste Management plant since it applied for the permit and said that ‘The plastic was still better off at Wright’s facility than in a landfill‘.
Deason has also denounced the security problems that this situation entails. The company has failed three fire safety inspections from the county, according to documents obtained by CBS and Inside Climate News. The waste poses ‘a significant fire hazard and There is a neighborhood right behind it. Therefore, a fire like that could spread very quickly and release a large amount of toxic gases in the process, and could spread to a neighborhood,’ the environmentalist said.