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One of the core problems with plastic and their recycling is that plastic doesn't let itself recycle so easily due to the chemical composition. If you have the best recyclable material (e.g. PET), it will only recycle up to 3 to 4 times and even then new plastic is added to guarantee the quality of the recycled plastic. After that, the chemical composition is that much damaged you cannot use it anymore. The second problem is that with the collection of e.g. household recyclable waste, is that there are so many types of plastic in there, that sorting out the "good quality" plastics from the "bad quality" (Single Use Plastics) is a tedious and expensive process. Most of it will be sorted into 1 category, the category where it is used as fuel for energy production. It is burned.

More effective solutions are focussed on avoiding plastics as much as we can. One of the biggest areas to win is looking at the packaging of products.

What's wrong with plastic recycling: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HNWn885qWtU&pp=ygUgcGxhc3RpYyB...

The plastic recycling numbers in the EU: https://circulareconomy.europa.eu/platform/sites/default/fil...