Comment Re:All or Nothing? (Score 1) 268
It's like saying, "Guns aren't a problem because bullets can be dodged. Sure we don't dodge all bullets but we got to start somewhere." The trouble is that plastic is never recycled, you heard me never. The molecules are damaged during the "recycling" process, so you never end up with virgin plastic. So all plastic minus a rounding error goes to the landfill because it costs a lot to "recycle" plastic into a cheaper inferior product.
While there's some value in recycling plastic, the recycling programs main purpose is to get people to forget the most important part of "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle in that order"