I've heard it summed up this way: "They lied to us 30 years ago. How can we trust they're not lying this time?" Recycling technology has not advanced enough th

I've heard it summed up this way: "They lied to us 30 years ago. How can we trust they're not lying this time?" Recycling technology has not advanced enough that what is promised is credible. If they were honest about the difficulties in recycling, it may be that we still might have carried forward with the plastic revolution - but we probably would have been less cowboy-ish in adopting it for everything.