> Notably, plastic recycling is fake, and my city just makes a giant pile of plastic separate from the giant pile of garbage. For some measures of "fake". The

> Notably, plastic recycling is fake, and my city just makes a giant pile of plastic separate from the giant pile of garbage. For some measures of "fake". The German PET bottle deposit scheme works relatively well, as the material collected is pure PET with very little contamination. For pretty much every other type of plastic, "recycling" usually means thermal use, aka burning it for district heating.