[stavros]

There have been a few articles about that recently. However, you can notice it for yourself if you notice how many products claim to be "recyclable" but how few are recycled.

If recycling were widespread, you'd expect the vast majority of products to be made with recycled plastic.

[AlecSchueler]

The ineffectives of recycling is one thing, but the person above posited that the paid industry were up to no good as well.