A friend of mine works in a garbage burning facility that is used to heat a part of the city. He told me that the more the garbage is separated, the less it burns and they still have to fulfill a quota. So they throw in a lot of glass and other things.

Zero co actually just announced this bullshit - their former model was recycled plastic 'forever bottles' you refilled from recycled plastic pouches that you sent back to be cleaned and reused.

Now they're doing much smaller single use packaging that's ldpe lined cardboard, doesn't work with their forever bottles (meaning you have to buy new proprietary kit) and are touting it as greener.

6even when recycled the whole process increases the amount of plastics in the air.

And plastic in general is always going to eventually end up in the enviroment. There is only so many times you can heat and melt plastic before its bonds start to collasps.

Right from day one recycling was a plastics industries attempt to green wash and delay shut down/ replacement.

Many better options exist. The only issue is production cost. And that will not improve while corperations continue to use plastic as the cheap solution.

The industry knew what they were doing when they claimed plastic could be recycled. And need to suffer for the lie that it was a solution to the harm their product dose.

plastic stickers on supermarket fruit drive me nuts. I think about the cost to the environment from manufacture to disposal. must be a better way?