> polymers that aren’t cross linked, are in a sense easy to recycle The way to do big changes is one small step at a time, and the reasonable way is to start w

> polymers that aren’t cross linked, are in a sense easy to recycle The way to do big changes is one small step at a time, and the reasonable way is to start with the low hanging fruit. So the the interesting question isn't why we're being lied to by Big Recycling, but why the easiest steps aren't being taken. It's almost fruitless to discuss these issues on online forums because otherwise intelligent people insists on explaining how hard the problem of universal polymer recycling really is, as if that would make all recycling of plastics (sometimes even all recycling, full stop) impossible. Meanwhile countries such as Norway recycles 95% av all PET bottles while the US is stuck on 30%. Yet every discussion that remotely touches on recycling has to iterate that it's all a big lie.