The issue isn't whether people put plastic waste into recycling bins, it's about whether any of that plastic gets taken out of the bins and re-used in commercia

The issue isn't whether people put plastic waste into recycling bins, it's about whether any of that plastic gets taken out of the bins and re-used in commercial processes. Today, across the entire world, that answer is essentially no. Yes, there are products made with recycled plastic (Coca Cola is the current poster child). They are rare because its considerably more expensive and more difficult to work with recycled plastic, and most are made primarily with waste from manufacturing processes not post-consumer waste (I suspect Coke's volume is high enough that they need to tap the post-consumer stream but I haven't found any data on that).