[anyseguy]

Recycling does indeed work, as proven by the last few billion years on this planet - literally everything that ever was on the Earth is either still around or has been recycled over and over. It is the concept of 'waste' - introduced by a recently arrived species - that doesn't work. Unless there is some infinitely expandable place to put it, producing ANY amount of unusable or unrecyclable waste that accumulates will at some point in the future become a problem. This is math that even the most rabid Koch bros follower can't argue with.