Plastic recycling exacerbates global warming and costs taxpayers billions. Plastic recycling was a well intentioned idea that failed. After decades of effort only 5% of plastic gets recycled and failed efforts create 10X more global warming than doing nothing at all.
Washington — Plastic recycling rates are declining even as production shoots up, according to a Greenpeace USA report out Monday that blasted industry claims of creating an efficient, circular economy as “fiction.” Titled “Circular Claims Fall Flat Again,” the study …