Plastic Recycling Doesn’t Work and Will Never Work

“We’re not making a case for despair. Just the opposite. We need the facts so that individuals and policy makers can take concrete action. Proven solutions to the U.S.’s plastic-waste and pollution problems exist and can be quickly replicated across the country. These solutions include enacting bans on single-use plastic bags and unrecyclable single-use plastic food-service products, ensuring widespread access to water-refilling stations, installing dishwashing equipment in schools to allow students to eat food on real dishes rather than single-use plastics, and switching Meals on Wheels and other meal-delivery programs from disposables to reusable dishware.”

I find the situation with plastic a bit depressing, to be honest. As a consumer it's impossible to avoid it and it also feels like a sisyphean task. It'd be great if some regulations came into play so that we aren't using as much because the product makers can't use it, because I'm so tired of making recylcing the problem of individuals when it needs to be a systemic change to have a real impact.