Fossil fuel companies certainly are ruthless. Though, there's no need for them to play pricing games with recycled plastic. Tax-wise, there is not nearly enough

Fossil fuel companies certainly are ruthless. Though, there's no need for them to play pricing games with recycled plastic. Tax-wise, there is not nearly enough recycled plastic. It turns out most plastic cannot be recycled at all. A number of stories broke not too long ago that the myth of plastic recycling was pushed by oil industries to make everyone feel good about using plastic because they were then "recycling" it. Some references: "How Big Oil Misled The Public Into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled" - https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/897692090/how-big-oil-misled-the-public-into-believing-plastic-would-be-recycled https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/897692090/how-big-oil-misled-... "California is investigating Big Oil for allegedly misleading the public on recycling" - https://www.npr.org/2022/04/28/1095305949/california-is-investigating-big-oil-for-allegedly-misleading-the-public-on-recyc https://www.npr.org/2022/04/28/1095305949/california-is-inve... "Big Oil Sold the World on a Plastics Recycling Myth. It May Be Too Late to Undo the Damage" - https://time.com/6173859/plastic-recycling-big-oil-damage/ https://time.com/6173859/plastic-recycling-big-oil-damage/