This is a huge step. Plastic recycling is a scam literally designed by advertisers to sell more plastic. Much plastic marked as recyclable is not; much cannot be recycled in most areas; much that is technically recyclable cannot be recycled due to cost related to contamination.

It’s something like 70-80% of Aluminium is recycled globally. For plastics, that number is around 8 or 9 percent.

Its been proven that the recycling symbol is placed on things that are not actually known to be recyclable - e.g., yogurt containers - to get people to feel better about buying plastic

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Oh, come on. Nobody actually believed that recycling was viable except the simpletons that the politicians lied to repeatedly about it. We had seen enough pictures of yards full of plastic that would just “disappear” when it was found.

Now they’re clutching their pearls and lying again. Certainly the oil companies bear a level of responsibility, but it was bullshit all the way down the supply chain to the consumer that gave us a plastic world.