The safest place for waste plastic is in a landfill. Landfill is not a demon. Landfill contains the toxicity. The obsession with recycling plastic leads to u

The safest place for waste plastic is in a landfill. Landfill is not a demon. Landfill contains the toxicity. The obsession with recycling plastic leads to unintended consequences. For example some countries put waste plastic in roads, where cars and trucks grind it out into microplastic that go into air water food animals dust adults and children. Parts of India require this by law. The entire concept of recycling plastic is ridiculously false and is perpetuated by the plastic packaging companies so you won’t question the infinite firehose of plastic packaging they are blasting into every part of the earth. What exactly is all this plastic being recycled into? I certainly hope not food containers. The real answer is “not much”, because there’s zero match between the output of the plastics packaging industry and the “recycling”. Go ahead try to make a list of what could possibly be made from the gagillion tons of new plastic packaging. It’s fiction. Why are we so desperate to “keep things out of landfill”? Landfill is where plastic should go. I personally throw all my plastic waste not in the recycle bin, but in the waste bin, to ensure it goes to landfill, and because I don’t want to be part of the lie that is plastic recycling.