[KennyBlanken]

Plastic recycling was a sham, and still is; it's never been economically viable and never will be, because the polymer degrades, permanently, as part of production, use, and aging.

It's window-dressing so the industry can shift attention away from limiting production of something that shouldn't see anywhere near the widespread use it does.

The same is true of the stories you see all the time about some group or person doing a beach cleanup. It casts the problem as the fault of people dumping the stuff, while pretending like it's a solvable problem, if only we had enough people rummaging around cleaning up beaches, parks, ocean bays, fields, hiking trails, abandoned properties, etc.