One of the benefits of recycling being a major part of modern day culture is that the future generations of decision makers will have grown up with it. Hopefully they’ll continue to consider the environment and peoples overall health when making large scale policies.

Not just once. Maybe even twice!

If you ask my chemistry professor, there is only one category of truly recyclable plastic: thermoplastic. Within that category I think he specifically mentioned polypropylene, because it doesn’t require the addition of new plastic to be stable after reforming into a new plastic product. Unfortunately that one rarely gets recycled because it’s used for milk jugs and such, and food contamination is too big a hassle for people to deal with when there’s all this shiny new plastic waiting to be used

I’m a little bit drunk right now so my memory is probably not the best, you should definitely not take what I said as perfect fact xD

New recycling techniques are being developed, even if we landfilled our trash separately it would help future efforts to clean it all up.

Not buy and if you already did re-use it.

It’s gonna depend on where you are, ultimately. Here it all ends up in a dump anyway.

I feel like it does good, but then Penn & Teller day otherwise.

https://youtu.be/7czKngCUASM