https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Greenpeace-Report-Circular-Claims-Fall-Flat.pdf
[36-page report at link above
From the executive summary:
"Most types of plastic packaging are economically impossible to recycle
now and will remain so in the foreseeable future. Companies must move
beyond the outdated, failed approach of promoting recycling as the
solution to excessive plastic waste and pollution. Furthermore, few U.S.
cities have industrial composting facilities5 required to treat
compostable plastics and many compost facility operators don’t want
compostable plastics.6 We cannot recycle or compost our way out of the
growing plastic pollution problem. Instead of pretending that the
trillions of throwaway plastic items produced each year will be recycled
or composted, we must stop producing so many of them in the first place.
To meet their “recyclable, reusable or compostable” pledge commitments,
companies must become serious about employing reusable/refillable
business models."]
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