This was the goal! Recycling is the greatest marketing success in history. The only goal to trick the public and naive governments into thinking plastic was a

This was the goal! Recycling is the greatest marketing success in history. The only goal to trick the public and naive governments into thinking plastic was a renewable low-pullution resource. Material recovery was never a goal. It's like the cigarette industry trying to promote "low tar" cigarettes, but far, far more successful.