Recycling's a Fraud! says MSM. Who Knew?

Recycling plastic isn’t viable for a number of reasons. First of all, the process is expensive, much more so than producing plastic from scratch. And since only plastics of the same type can be recycled together, they have to be sorted first—and there are thousands of types. Most types aren’t recycled at all, as the resulting plastic is of such low quality that there’s no demand for it. And even for those few types that can be recycled, they can only endure the process a few times before they are so degraded that recycling leaches toxic materials. At the end of the day, just five percent of plastics are recycled.