The Delusion of “Advanced” Plastic Recycling
www.propublica.org
The plastics industry has heralded a type of chemical recycling it claims could replace new shopping bags and candy wrappers with old ones — but not much is being recycled at all, and this method won’t curb the crisis.

Turns out even the most “advanced” modes of plastics recycling are bullshit, just as 40+years of plastics recycling efforts before them.

  • Michael H. JenkinsOP
    10·
    4 months ago

    As someone who’s been recycling since the early 1980s, the whole thing is heartbreaking.

    • sunzu@kbin.run
      10·
      4 months ago

      Well we all got played… they took our good intentions and turned around to work for their profit.

      Just having good intention is not good enough, got to get educated and treat it like a war that it is.

      Bad faith actors should never get any benefit of doubt.