Disillusioned by recycling companies

[GetMeOffThisMerrygoround]

After reading the BBC article this morning that our tyres are being sent to India for recycling and then being processed in an illegal manner, see article, makes me really sad and angry.
I'm trying to do my bit for the environment and for myself but I feel we're being ripped off. What can we do? I've paid for my tyres to be recycled but like our plastic recycling, how do we know what's happening to it all?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c14jy2dd8jeo

We need proper systems in this country to deal with our own recycling and rubbish. Im not sure why its so hard to burn our rubbish and use special filters for the pollution, containing that, even perhaps making more energy out of that. Storing the energy from the burning of the rubbish to use for energy supply.

Someone must be able to invent that?

Consumers are the only ones who can push change: Ask why the tyres contain pollutants (they do more harm to the air quality than the exhaust fumes do, and yet nobody mentions it).

As to 'recycling', just stop being tricked by a greenwashing lie. We can try hard not to buy plastic, including artificial fibre. We can Stop Buying Plastic, and Just Stop 'Recycling', which is pandering to the falsehood, treating the public as if we are little children, who are obediently writing a wish-list to Santa Clause, still believing in a fairy tale.

The government fuel research laboratory used to work on exactly that. My dad designed systems that could automatically separate domestic waste (in the 70s and 80s, before people had multiple bins) and turn it into fuel pellets. The Cadbury factory had some of the test incinerators.

The project was closed down because recycling was seen as the better option. Done properly, it can be more efficient for a lot of materials. And the general public view is that recycing is cleaner and better than burning - areas that did build waste burning plants tended to have a lot of local opposition.

The best answer is a mix of options. But governments tend to go with whatever is cheapest and easiest in the short term, and what will play well with voters.

This is widely done but still a major contributed to air pollution.