7 Things You Didn’t Know About Plastic (and Recycling)

When you recycle plastic, you prevent it from polluting the oceans. This myth is based on the enduring delusion that plastic from curbside bins can be efficiently turned into other products. But sorting the stuff is so onerous and labor-intensive—and the resulting materials of so little value—that recycling plastic is hopelessly unprofitable in the... See more

First, recycling programs across the U.S. are successfully recycling plastic today, and we know what it will take to recycle more of it.