The It's a farce saying quote

between 1990 and 2015

some 90% of plastics either ended up in a landfill

were burned or leaked into the environment.

You know how much effort was spent?

Recycling plastic?

It's a joke, but it was never, ever,

and I've said this all alone. It was never about saving the earth from the plastic.

You could throw the plastic in the street, or you could throw the plastic in your backyard or you could take the

plastic 15 miles in your Subaru or better yet your electric car and you could put in a special recycling bin that

your local city councilman got passed and he's so proud and look at him the white liberal that he is so he's

doing some things of the earth and we're gonna have a press conference we're gonna

have ribbon cutting and this is all gonna be so exciting but it all ends up in the

same place it all ends up in the same place.

It all ends up in the same place.

Another recent study estimates that just five to six percent

of plastics are recycling. so half as much as the 10% that the New Republic study had. While those numbers may surprise you, these sorts of statistics are not news to the companies that produce plastics.

For more than 30 years the industry knew precisely how impractical it is to recycle them,

according to a new report from the Center for Climate Integrity. A Trade Association called the

vinyl Institute concluded in a 1986 report that quote recycling cannot be

considered a permanent solid waste solution to plastics as it merely prolongs the time

until an item is quote disposed of you're not actually disposing I would just

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