> Is it not possible that the environmental benefits of recycling plastics had actually been considered by governments that brought in legislation? It is not.

> Is it not possible that the environmental benefits of recycling plastics had actually been considered by governments that brought in legislation? It is not. the paper you cited (thank you) was written in 2017. But more to the point, governments don’t work that way. If in fact the reason for recycling is environmental benefit, we (USA anyway) would not be in the situation where we are putting plastics back in landfills, and we would not have been in the prior situation where we dump plastic and ewaste to other countries with no oversight whatsoever on what happens to it once it leaves our shores. the environmental impact is the same, here or there.