Another reason to not recycle is that recycling is to protect local environments from immediate short term damage. A bigger environmental problem is global warm

Another reason to not recycle is that recycling is to protect local environments from immediate short term damage. A bigger environmental problem is global warming and I don't think recycling help with that at all. If anything, it seems like it would make it worse by reducing the amount of oil needed to make plastic, thus keeping the demand and price low so more of it can be burnt cheaply instead. How about we convert as much oil as we can into plastic, bury it in the ground for a few 100s of years and stop worrying?