Fortunately even the plastic those people designate for recycling is not in fact recycled in the overwhelming number of cases ([0] cites a rate of ~8% dropping to ~5% in 2021).
(/s? I think? I don’t know, this whole domain of waste stream problems seems like bouncing from one sad state of affairs to another)
Adorably, we count exporting the plastics to dump in third countries as “recycling” it, including it as part of that single-digit figure.
