> I remember growing up in the 90's and happily learning in school and on TV that it was my civic duty to recycle. You probably learned the three R's, reduce,

> I remember growing up in the 90's and happily learning in school and on TV that it was my civic duty to recycle. You probably learned the three R's, reduce, reuse and recycle, in that order. On the whole we've mostly forgotten about the first two and with plastics they're the only 2 that really apply. Before they were banned by the holier than though types I would at least re-use plastic shopping bags as rubbish bags, that was way less environmentally destructive than pretending to recycle the plastic packaging they were filled with. There's more to recycling than plastic though, glass and cans can be recycled indefinitely.