The article mentions this. The author is arguing that even for PET, the recycling process is toxic to human health. > Trying to recycle plastic makes the micro

The article mentions this. The author is arguing that even for PET, the recycling process is toxic to human health. > Trying to recycle plastic makes the microplastics problem even worse. A study of just one plastics recycling facility discovered that it might be washing 3 million pounds of microplastics into its wastewater every year — all of which ends up being deposited in our city water systems or dumped into the environment. > At this very moment, we all have microplastics coursing through our bodies. This is not the fault of not enough recycling. This is the fault of too much plastic. So I say: Let’s treat plastic like the toxic waste it is and send it where it can hurt people the least. Right now, that place is the landfill.