Feb. 21, 2023, 10:10 a.m. -  DanL

This demonstrates the externalized cost in plastics recycling and the manner in which corporate responsibility was shifted to a personal level : [https://phys.org/news/2022-10-plastic-recycling-myth-greenpeace.html](https://phys.org/news/2022-10-plastic-recycling-myth-greenpeace.html) [https://www.npr.org/2022/12/08/1141601301/the-myth-of-plastic-recycling](https://www.npr.org/2022/12/08/1141601301/the-myth-of-plastic-recycling) [https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/environment-plastic-oil-recycling/](https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/environment-plastic-oil-recycling/) Add the recycle numbers to a product which means technically it can be recycled but it's quite unfeasible on an industrial level. Brilliant work from industry. It's disgusting and a real sucker punch, I have difficulty processing this mentally. I carry on as I know that it's better than not, but I sense that it's a worse deal for other countries that it gets sent to :  [https://www.plasticpollutioncoalition.org/blog/2022/5/16/what-really-happens-to-your-plastic-recycling](https://www.plasticpollutioncoalition.org/blog/2022/5/16/what-really-happens-to-your-plastic-recycling) We have to make things accountable at a corporate level not this diffused personal level that absolves corporations of the responsibility - like the concept of personal carbon footprints  [https://clear.ucdavis.edu/blog/big-oil-distracts-their-carbon-footprint-tricking-you-focus-yours](https://clear.ucdavis.edu/blog/big-oil-distracts-their-carbon-footprint-tricking-you-focus-yours) When the cost of recycling/reusing the waste comes down compared to throwing it away then we will see a breakthrough in the same way that renewable energy is demonstrably cheaper than coal now. There are a lot of brilliant minds working on technologies to achieve this end goal and there is a lot of hope there, but it's not going to be from the people who tell us that everything's going fine.