I think that plastic recycling wasn't an invented scam, rather a bad generalization of previous recycling systems. Rags, metal, paper, glass can be reasonably r

I think that plastic recycling wasn't an invented scam, rather a bad generalization of previous recycling systems. Rags, metal, paper, glass can be reasonably recycled or at least processed into something else (rags into paper) and this has been done for centuries. It must have felt natural to add yet another material category to this list.